I like how little time has lapsed since age 65 has hit and people are already speculating that the "shortage" has / has not come. It's definitely changing things in the industry faster than the previous 10 years. The retirement numbers don't even pick up to their highest for another 4 years. People need to relax. As far as records of pilots go, each pilot should be judged individually and not purely on their record. Maybe one pilot doesn't have any failures because he just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Maybe another pilot has a failure or two because the specific examiner or training department was much harder. It doesn't make the person with zero failures a de facto better pilot. And a mainline carrier should be able to figure that out in an interview. And there's plenty of "good old boys" at mainline that have DUI's. It became a huge issue when there was a stigma attached to it in the 90's.