Originally Posted by
PipeMan
Your brother must really enjoy his job. That seems like an awful amount of flying and time away for a 60-year-old. Is he playing catch-up with retirement? No judgement, it just surprises me to see some older pilots working that hard if they don't have to.
Not all “older pilots” are a monolithic silo/group with a boat/sports car/vacation home complete with girlfriend for when the wife isn’t around.
Depending on timing as well as a host of other factors, the dark decade (and) a half may not have been very kind to their careers. Especially if they were in the ACMI world and dealt with ABEX/Airborne/Emery/Ryan/North American/Tower/Tradewinds/BAX/CAT/Gemini/World and whomever else.
Christ, I’m approaching mid 50’s and can only say that half my ~25 year airline career has been an upward slope/progression.
Just glad I saved, always lived within my means, and won’t have to work that hard from here on out, HOPEFULLY.