So for those that might have their career slightly disadvantaged - but will have the extra years available to them to recover - stop whining - get over it - it is called LIFE
In the space of a day commands have gone from 8 to 20 years due ASL/oasis/RA65. There is no way on gods earth that the average F/O who joined the company at age 30 and is still an f/o at age 50 can recoup even 30% of that by working to 65. The irony is that A scalers say they will drop out due medical before they reach 65 while b scalers will
have to work to 65 medical or not. I spent an afternoon with my financial advisor and no matter how you swing the numbers if RA 65 comes in B scalers get poor and A scalers get rich.
Even with a 28% pay cut an A scaler going to 65 retires with over 4 times what a B scaler retires on. As always I'm happy to look at any spreadsheets that show it really ain't that bad.