Originally Posted by
Moby Dick
Sorry, Todd, but it wasn't the lobbying of any part of the pilot group that changed the rules. It was Congressional response to the ICAO age change that had already been instituted in several other nations.
Let me ask you this: Is it fair that a foreign pilot over Age 60 could exercise their licenses in US airspace while an American pilot could not?
So low FO pay is not a legitimate source of complaint, because we should have known the pay rates before we took the job, but the mandatory retirement age, which had been law since the 50s, is not fair? I realize that ICAOs limit was a factor in Congress's decision, but so was the fact that, according to the
Washington Post, "older pilots boosted their lobbying efforts to raise the age."