Originally Posted by
RetireAlready
Spend time with family. I dont care. Let us have a chance to make more than $35k/yr.
Are you saying you didn't know what the pay scale was when you took your job?
Originally Posted by
Bustin
Only in a group of pilots would you find passionate complaints about the government easing a restriction on forcing you to retire... Funny/ironic how in a mostly conservative occupation that attitude is rampant.
Not really, if you consider what the Conservatives ran on in the last election. Government out of everything except your girlfriend's uterus.
Originally Posted by
Vertisch
I, like everyone else, hated the five year seat lock, but in this current discrimination free enviroment why is it that we allow age discrimination to continue...?
That is the key question, IMHO.
Listen, fellas. Age 60 is never coming back. You can choose to be bitter the rest of your lives about what you "lost" or just accept it and move on. We all stalled. But, whining about it won't bring Age 60 back.
The essential problem isn't the retirement age. Its the fact that Major airline jobs are scarce and the applicant pool far exceeds the seats. So a whole herd of pilots who thought they would be flying 747s to Singapore will have their retirement flight on a CRJ to Albany.