It is intended to apply EU law on 'age discrimation'on 31 October 2006. At BA this law will enable all crew to remain until 60 and beyond with the provision of passing annual medicals. So I suppose in years to come you will start seeing a lot older crews. However, this act does not effect employees that are contracted to retire at 55 or 60 but gives them the option to work on. This applies to employees in all walks of life and seeing the pension fiasco continue it just as well for many.