A wider look at the age issue...
Understandably, many senior colleagues aren't best pleased when an aspiring youngster wants them to take up gardening and "free up a seat" ! ....
But equally, comments like "wait your turn" and "the world doesn't owe you a living" aren't helpful. I would suggest that few of today's senior pilots had debts of £ 50,000 to £ 80,000 hanging over their heads at the start of their career !. (Even larger if people pay their own type / line training !). The new guys are keen (desperate) to work.
Some of the best people that I have flown with and learned from were in their 60s and 70s.
But most people either won't keep their class one medical or won't have the desire to work on through their 60s.
Should there be a "finish now" age or should it be "subject to medical" ?. It ought to be the latter, but ......
Taking another angle, myself and a number of friends came into commercial flying in our late thirties / early fourties - and have been looking for our first flying jobs for many months. (Some guys over a year). But the phrase "age commensurate with experience" comes up quite often. (No new guys over thirty it would seem - too much of a training risk perhaps ??? !!! - Despite first time passes from some of the best flight schools in the country ...).
Any advice from the senior guys on this one ?.....