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Old 3rd Apr 2008, 21:32
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While the grounding of a/c does impact manning, let's not forget about the mandatory retirement age just changed to 65 just under 4 months ago.

Also, at UPS/FedEx, they had a bunch of ROPES/Clingons/Herpes (over 60 years old pilot-type) flight engineers, that now get to go back to their Captain's seats, per the new legislation (employed as a required cockpit crewmember when the law changed).

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