Originally Posted by
NG_Kaptain
My guess.....60
ALPA is a powerful lobby and they oppose age 65.
ALPA is a toothless tiger and becomes more irrelevant on a daily basis. Powerful? Hah! What have they accomplished in the last 25 years or more to improve, or even maintain, their members' working conditions?
Pensions? Gone!
Work rules? Trashed!
Compensation? Racing to the bottom as we speak.
Add to this the decades of demeaning treatment at the hands of every tin-badge "aviation security" official.
I have been in this business for over 25 years and ALPA has ranted consistently at the antiquated, and dangerous, crew rest rules. There has been one major change in that 25 year period, and it was to make them WORSE for the pilots and more profitable for the companies. And your "powerful lobby" ALPA has been consistently unable to do ANYTHING whatsoever about it other than howl at the moon.
Powerful lobby? What a joke!
Age 65 will come as a result of politics, and the fact that the U.S. government will be unable to justify the discrimination against its own citizens vis-a-vis foreign airline pilots over 60 flying into U.S. airports on a daily basis.
The FAA is set to review this rule yet again, and issue its decision in the spring. If the FAA does not change the policy, look for Congress to do it for them.