Originally Posted by
PilotBases
Part of my thinking is that this is just piece of getting the ATP rule adjusted. “We changed the retirement age and it didn’t do enough!”. I can’t see many guys who bid 2-4 Europe/Asia trips a month at the big 3+brown/purple decide to do two years of hub turns on a narrowbody.
Don’t underestimate what a pilot will do for money. There is also talk of the international community raising their retirement ages. We all thought that when the age was raised to 65 that few would go he distance, when in fact very few left early.