A320rider: Were not in USA, thank God, so we can disregard their outrageous system.. next they won't allow you to write your name on your C.V for fear that one's ethnic background may be presumed from their 'GIVEN' names.
This ludacrous P.C crap, the system is abused so people can use it to their advantage. Of course discrimination should be eliminated but I would like to think in the U.K that operators genuinely employ those they feel will be most beneficial to their company. Are we going to sue BA because they only recruit Intergrated approved students and not Modular.
Robert, I am not aware of your personal circumstances. There is an ideology that older pilots (irrespective of experience) are harder to train and that younger pilots are more able and willing to adapt to change. This of course is an unfair stereotype and thus discrimination.. like saying generally women are not good at reading maps and therefore should not fly, ridiculous stereotypes that hold no substance. An individual should be judged on their own merits, period.
Age, however, does bring in one issue, legal retirement age. An airline wants to make the most of their employees, particularly in these competitive times. Every airline looks at an F/O as a potential Captain, makes sense. Therefore, if you went to BA (MINIMUM time to command is about 10 years), retirement age of 55. You can see it is not really worth taking on somebody over the age of 40 who hasn't got major airline experience. And this ideology is NOT discrimination, but mere common sense. I hope for your circumstances Robert you were in the latter case, otherwise you may have been robbed
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