Originally Posted by
Wingtip220
Nice try, DEI wont be affected by a change in the age for mandatory retirement. Every airline has or is in the process of creating gateway/cadet programs due to the dire need for pilots. All the airlines have to do is take the enrollment rosters to congress and show them the diverse range of applications. Regardless of how you identify you still have to possess the skills and aptitude to become a licensed commercial aviator.
If the woke members of congress get involved they may try and kill it. Easy to point out past hiring practices generated more white males on the seniority list than current DEI hiring practices.
Extending the retirement age exacerbates the sins of the past and rewards it. If they think infrastructure is racist, then it’s an easy conclusion that a date of hire seniority list created pre DEI needs run it’s course as fast as possible.
If WIA, OBAP, and NGPA , can campaign they have 3 times as many members on the bottom half of the seniority list, vs the top half, it shows extending retirement age is just extending income inequality.