Originally Posted by
Agent62
Age 65 is there for 1 reason. Safety. Your may not agree with that, but that's the stated reason for it.
The only reason it should be changed is if it's deemed to be safe to do so.
Congress, pilots, airlines, the flying public, boomers retirement account managers, et. al, can't determine if raising the retirement age is the SAFE thing to do.
Conflating this issue with money or seniority is the absolutely worst take someone can have, and easily shows their bias.
“Safety” is a continuum! People in their 40s and 50s have more cardiac events than 20 and 30 yr olds so it would be “safer” to only have pilots under 40 flying.
How safe is safe enough is the question.
Many factors into safety of course but to make blanket statements about a population as a whole based only on age is a diminishing notion as age increases as people’s health varies quite a bit with age but everyone ends up at the same destination.