Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You are Naive! Not to mention when you get over 55 all many pilots need to do is be honest at medical time. Those that don't have a medical issue will create one. It was very lucrative for former Pan Am pilots to go disability rather then retire. probably 3 out of 4 went out disabled. Some guys have no trouble at all looking themselves in the mirror doing that kind of stuff. I really admired some of the Pan Am guys who retired and left a 100,000 a year on the table. It's called character and some had it.
well....when your failed model union negotiated retirement magically vanishes, many were left with very tough choices.
So save the 'looking in the mirror' moralizing. Unless you want to open the conversation on national officers dues paid pension plan...when virtually none of the member pilot groups have such a benefit.
You would have to go out in a seat position that had no age 60 mandatory retirement qualifier. So a double down bid to the SO seat was the mechanism.