That's right, folks! The Aviation Law forum is now the only place where you can debate the Age 65 rule until you are blue in face, until the cows come in, until I become Ms. Teen America.
And it still won't change the retirement age back to 60. Ha!
If the price of crude oil continues to drop and Congress is able to get some semblance of a "bailout" plan passed, in time, I believe that that will free up investment capital and credit and things will start to improve, so much, that I'm optimistic that the age 65 rule will have little, if any affect on hiring.
If things don't turn around, quite a few pilots that are struggling now should be golden in about 4 years when the wave of 65'ers will start to retire. Just what they will do until then is anybody's guess.
Actually, I was just wondering about the lawsuit that was filed on behalf of the pilots who were over 60 but under 65 after the law passed who wanted their jobs back.
How is it progressing?
Is it really a violation of the 14th Amendment and its Equal Protection Clause?
I know the law is not going to change.
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Is it really a violation of the 14th Amendment and its Equal Protection Clause?
Probably not...the legislators would likely not make that basic a mistake.
The guys who had already turned 60 can go get another job if they like...but there is no legal basis for re-instating them to their old position of senior captain at the expense of every airline pilot in the US.
Those guys knew they were done at age 60 when they took the job in the first place.
Besides, all the executive branch has to do is stall the legal process for four years...that's easy enough.
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