Guys staying past 60 don't **** me off. It's the ones who pick up overtime when junior guys are on furlough. At least at my airline, a huge number of our 60+ guys have never ever been furloughed in their career, but are more than willing to throw the junior guys under the bus for a few more $$$ in their pockets.
We still have our A-Plan on the property, so I don't want to hear the no pension argument.
So, that's what gets under my skin. It's not the rule change, but the behavior of the over 60 crowd with regard to flexing up to the monthly max and signing up for time and half trips.
Maybe they should have invested their money wisely in their younger years and not been thrice divorced with a big house, a cabin in the woods, boat, etc. That's their own fault, but the junior guys have to pay for it I guess.
I'll finish up here... but, we actually have a handful of these 60+ guys who are quite wealthy and don't need this job. They could have retired years ago, but they are sticking around because "they are having fun doing this job." The total disregard towards the plight of a young family not being able to put food on the table, because they are having fun makes my blood boil.
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CVG767A
The rules have changed. Get over it. You're painting a very large and diverse group with a very broad brush.
I think your image of a senior captain is delusional. Rather than someone who is wealthy, yet stays after age sixty out of greed, it's more likely that he is someone who was headed toward a moderately comfortable retirement until the pension disappeared, and the stock market imploded.
Next thing, you're going to be calling a pilot over 60 a scab...
(BTW, I'm 51 years old)