I feel your pain aces low. If you were in Australia, I'd suggest heading to one of the aeromedical operators, who still seem to value flying, and life, experience.
Mach E Avellie summed things up pretty well in the Jetgo Blacklist thread.
Considering that most operators require pilots to renew medicals in their own time, and conduct at least two checks per year on all pilots, the extra time and cost to the company for us silly old buggers to maintain a licence is three eighths of five eighths.
The only real issue is that certain international flights can't be done by over 65s. Therefore it is quite reasonable for an operator with predominately international operations to reject applicants nearing that age cutoff. They can even say so without fearing any age discrimination proceedings.
What really bothers some managements is that most of us are a bit too independent and street-wise to tolerate bull****.
http://www.pprune.org/pacific-genera...blacklist.html