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Old 05-05-2022 | 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Thor
Up the retirement age to 67 and overnight there’s a to year buffer to sort out the pilot shortage and doesn’t require changes to flight time minimums.
Nope. It might or might not help - what really got things this bad this quick was most legacies offered ng anyone 62-65 (and SWA down to the 50s) early retirement in 2020. They wound up retiring everyone who turned 65 that year and a whole bunch who didn’t. Then when flying picked up quickly and somewhat unexpectedly, they were about 5000 major airline pilots down from 2019 levels and they are surging trying to catch up to only “normal” levels of retirements (which were already going to require hiring a tremendous number.

The guys (and gals) who left you are not going to get back. They are either drinking Margueritas on a beach somewhere or have already found a job flying a Pilatus or Bizjet for someone. At 65, a lot of their pilot brethren will join them - far more than would keep flying until 67. And your chances of changing the federal law in the five months run up to an election are pretty near nil anyway.
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