Originally Posted by
TheBaron
Wishes are nice but they must have some basis in reality for them to come true. Age 60 was/is going to change, period. Our government can't allow some 64 year old Chinese guy to pilot his 747 into LAX on one hand, and then tell U.S. pilots that they can't fly beyond 60 for safety reasons. Doesn't it give you a headache beating your skull against a brick wall? If you want to complain about something, do so about the inadequate and misleading communications that came out of ALPA during this process.
I think his point is that a majority of ALPA membership were against the age 60 change and ALPA did not even attempt to fight the legislation. Prater has his own agenda and always has. The only reason he got elected was that he swayed the UAL reps by telling them he would do everything he could to get age 60 changed.
Politics at its worst.