Originally Posted by
encore
Very few people benefited. The age increase didn't give everyone 5 more years at the top. It gave everyone 5 more years where they were at that moment. A few were at the top as widebody captains, but many more, myself included, were regional FOs... or on furlough... or struggling CFIs... etc.
And now, thanks to that delay, I HAVE TO work to 65 to get to the point I would've otherwise gotten to at 60. I don't want to work til I'm that old, but thanks to a lot of greedy selfish people, I now have to.
Theres no way to spin this that it was a good thing for most airline pilots. It screwed us over. All because a select few thought they didn't have to play by the rules that our career is based upon.
Just to be clear, the rule change didn't happen because a select few pilots wanted to stop playing by the rules. No amount of lobbying from any group would have changed the
regulators from making that decision.
Carl