Originally Posted by yamahas3

Age 65 didn't give everyone 5 more years at the top. It paused everyone's careers for 5 years in the seat they were in at the time. Now the younger pilots are going to have to work to 65 to get to the point they would've been at when they reached 60.

This whole age 65 thing was one of the most selfish acts to ever take place in this industry. Pilots enjoyed upward movement their entire profession and then took that same movement, career potential, and opportunity away from every pilot below them. Bad economic times? So what? I don't care. Every pilot's career has good times and bad times, that group wasn't the only one to encounter them. You got handed a lame card at the end of the game, thats tough, but its life. Its not the first time and its not the last time it will happen to a pilot, but you can't just go take that money from the rest of the piloting profession and say that it was a just thing to do.