Originally Posted by encore

Everyone out there benefited their whole careers from people ahead of them in seniority retiring when they hit age 60. It is a major driver in how this career works and part of our whole seniority based system.

Just because you had a bad roll of the dice doesn't mean it isn't selfish to hit pause for everyone when you're at the top and steal dollars and time from the pilots below you who are playing by the same rules you did your whole career.

It didn't give everyone 5 more years at the top. It gave everyone 5 more years where they were at that moment. For some at the top, many who very self-servingly argued for it, that was a widebody captain position at a major. For many others though, that was as a regional FO, as a flight instructor, as a furloughed pilot. All of whom now had to worry more about supporting their family because someone who didn't financially plan for a bad day decided to steal that from them by changing the rules.

Personally, I don't want to work to 65. But now I HAVE TO in order to get to the position in my career I would've otherwise attained by that age of 60.