This was published in the 8 May 07 Memphis Business Journal:

NWA to Senate: Don't delay pilots' retirement
Memphis Business Journal - 4:41 PM CDT Tuesday, May 8, 2007

In a rare partnership, Northwest Airlines Corp. and the Air Line Pilots Association are lobbying to stop legislation that will alter the age restriction on active pilots.

In a letter to Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), NWA CEO Doug Steenland and ALPA's David Stevens write that they're strongly opposed to the legislative proposal to replace the Age 60 Rule for pilots. The proposed Age 65 Rule will replace one arbitrary age limit with another with no criterion-based process for determining pilot fitness, the two state in the letter. In addition, the new age restriction may jeopardize safety.

NWA (Pink Sheets: NWACQ) and ALPA claim there's no medical evidence to support later retirement for pilots.

If passed, the rule will delay the retirement of numerous pilots, they say, and consequently delay the promotion of younger pilots.

Northwest employs about 1,500 in its Memphis hub.

Or you can go to:
http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/s...0400%5e1459362

or go the ALPA website and wonder through it's ALPA webboards.



You know there could be some dissent when the ALPA Executive Board meets later this month. If that's the case, maybe, its just speculation on my part, just maybe our MEC Chair promised to bring FDX ALPA in on the "right" side of this issue, thereby insuring a change to ALPA's Age 60 Regulated retirement age position.

Could also explain why the Alpa President is visiting the MEM airport to talk with the troops tomorrow and Tuesday.

Could be why everybody on the FDX MEC is in lockstep on this issue.

Always bothers me when everybody agrees on the same solution or takes the same side of a difficult issue. Leads to group think.