Hey 6-60,
I put a bit of info on the thread below re the age discrimination legislation. Scroggs comments are quite accurate both on the "young and agile" (although there is also the inverse correlation of age with experience to factor in) and the difficulties in proving discrimination.
I would say that you will probably see a change or removal of the age limit, HOWEVER that is not going to resolve the underlying problem of "age-ism"....sorry!
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...=235439&page=3