ACMS. You really are a piece of work! You seem to have this obsessive desire to see a 'lower' upper end of the salary scale. In case you haven't noticed, nearly all the worlds airlines are at 65, or soon will be. NONE of them pay their senior pilots less for the extra years they work....NONE. What exactly is your reasoning that would suggest that at CX, alone amongst all the worlds airlines, will be better off with a lower pay scale for the senior pilots.....of which you one day will be one yourself? How will that benefit YOU exactly?
Ps. You seem so sure of your postion, I am sure you will happily declare a pledge to not work for an A scale level of pay from 55 to 65....even if it was offered to you....? (needless to say, the obvious answer to this question reveals your deep hypocrisy).
ps. you say that the senior pilots 'agreed' to work to 55. That was because that was all that was on offer at the time. It is now going to be illegal to discriminate because of age, so the legal basis for signing the contract to 55 is null and void accordingly. Based on your logic, a slave in the 1800's should have remained a slave after emancipation because 'that was his status originally'....