Originally Posted by
Busboy
Why? If ALPA's goal was that they "wanted the senior, mostly older, pilots to be able to fly past 60"...Why would they have the no retroactivity clause put in the bill?
ALPA got the final verbiage changed to "active flight deck crewmembers" (note: that's inclusive of both pilots & flight engineers)
This was as close to retroactivity as they could get
Most ALPA carriers didn't care, they no longer had FEs
Only Fedex and NWA/Delta had aircraft with active FEs
The NWA/Delta MEC did not push for this change in verbiage -- it came from Fedex