Originally Posted by
kingairip
No other legacy airline had retirees in the same category as active employees. Indeed, even the military "space A" priority has retirees behind active employees. To me (and this is just my humble opinion), the idea that retirees would have the same priority as active employees is ludicrous.
At United, retirees used to go
AHEAD of active employees. You give 25+ years to the company, you get something in return. It wasn't until after the CAL merger that this went away. As someone who is currently an active employee but planned on doing lots of travel during retirement, this was a major setback.
Rather than retiring early like I planned (I was thinking 57), I will probably stay on until age 65 and just work my schedule so I can do lots of traveling at the top of the seniority list.