So you say

Deep down, in places we won't talk about at cocktail parties or in crew rooms, we KNOW there needs to be a mandatory retirement age to remove the fossils who lack the intellectual honesty to realize they have passed their expiration date.

Just as Threat and Error Management employs flows and checklists to "capture" mistakes, so to does a mandatory age capture the outliers. Arbitrary? Certainly. Necessary? You damn skippy.

But we all know that the threat of litigation will prevent the company from moving on this issue. It will only come from a regulatory change.

So far, the Union and the PAC have tried to stay at arm's length. The acid test will come if an NPRM surfaces to harmonize 135/91K with Part 121. My guess is the PAC will then lobby AGAINST that regulatory change and it will vindicate my decision to NOT support the PAC.

Unless and until an NPRM surfaces, it's just much ado about nothing.