Originally Posted by sailingfun;[url=tel:3633854

3633854[/url]]Clearly you don’t understand what happened last time. You might read up on what ICAO had just done with age 65 and the FAA agreeing to allow foreign pilots to fly to 65 in the US. There were 3 lawsuits over age 60 in the court system at the time. With the FAA agreeing it was now safe for pilots to fly in the US to 65 those court cases were now stone cold losers.
ALPA could have continued to oppose 65 and have a judge rule which best case would have been 65 or worst case no age limit and retired pilots allowed back. Instead they did the smart thing and worked with Congress and the FAA to craft legislation allowing 65 with no retired returns preempting the court cases. Sometimes you need to be smart and not push a 100% lost cause.

Originally Posted by sailingfun;[url=tel:3634121

3634121[/url]]The poll was a year or two prior to ICAO going to 65.