This older article is about a pilot's mandatory retirement from ANA at 65. He took his experience mentorship to a regional operation of 39 Dash-8 classics to local islands.
This is the direction we should be pushing in regardless regulatory change. Mandatory retirement from line flying at 65 enshrined in the UPA
How many US pilots could pass the notorious Japanese medical anyway let alone our senior WB crowd?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/b...red-pilot.html