Mandatory Retirement Age
Super Cecil. I do not know what the current company policy is, however when I was employed by Cathay Pacific Airways the compulsory company retirement age for cockpit crew was 55. This had little or nothing to do with the relative skill level versus that of younger employee's but rather it was a Swire Group policy, not just CPA, designed to give those lower down the totem pole the chance to progress without having to necessarily wait for someone to expire. Of course, if manning requirements dictated, the retirement age could be increased by giving some an extension past 55 years. Reading some of the "bellyaching" from some current CPA employee's it is doubtful the age 55 limit would impact on them!