Originally Posted by Timbo

There will be more turnover in the lower pay scales if they have new hires with less than 12 years to age 65, no doubt. I'm sure the bean counters have run the numbers to see if it's cheaper to hire younger guys and keep them 35 years or hire older guys (age 53?) and constantly be running a new hire program to replace them.

If the company could hire nothing but age 60 pilots and turn them over every 5 years, I'm sure they'd LOVE that! Nobody would ever get to year 12 pay rates!