The elephant in the room is the disconnect between retirement of pilots and the state pension, for Brits anyway.
When I retire I will have to wait a minimum of 2 years to collect my 144 quid or whatever a week. Not a big problem maybe for those who have had a stable career on the old style pensions, although look what happened to the bmi pension.
Those of you in the 20/30 year age bracket will be looking at 5 years. So I guess it's stacking shelves in Tesco. Unless one has been very mature in saving and not running up huge debts......but wait....