Originally Posted by
clunckdriver
LIS, I dont know where this "everybody was hired young" came from, sure wasnt on my intake, {In the first group after no hiring for fourteen years I seem to recal} I bought five years pension time back and still didnt get quite the full 35 in, however having kept the first wife Im doing OK!
The Air Canada pension was designed for pilots who reach 35 years of service. With your military time, you were an exception rather than the rule. As time goes on, fewer and fewer pilots will meet that magic 35 year mark. For pilots hired today it will be almost impossible to reach 35 years of service. Big changes are in order, and working past 60 is a good start.