Originally Posted by Klako

Get rid of all mandatory retirement age rules.

Greedy junior airline pilots have always been salivating over the next senior pilot being forced to retire and thus allowing junior pilots to move up the seniority list.

The FAA's mandatory retirement age of 65 rule for airline pilots is still nothing less than blatant age discrimination and it has been greedy junior pilots and the damn unions that represent them who continue to perpetuate stupid mandatory pilot retirement age rules. Pilots should have the choice of flying for as long as they wish and are able to pass the FAA's medical exam.

We are loosing our nation’s most qualified airline pilots. The United States government forces most of its most experienced airline pilots out of their profession simply because of a harmful and seriously out-dated law. Age alone must not be the sole determination as to when an airline pilot must retire.

United States Part 121 air carriers have thousands of highly experienced, skilled and capable older pilots. It is a crime against a pilots' civil liberty that the most experienced pilots are excluded from flying for a Part 121 airline only because once they celebrate their 65th birthday, regardless of their health, are forced to retire. There should be no age limit in being an airline pilot. The current age 65 rule imposed by the FAA has no basis in science, yet it is still on the books. It is time to rescind this outdated regulation, and allow our best experienced pilots to continue doing heir job. --- An x-airline pilot forced to retire at age 60 and still ****ed-off about it.