Originally Posted by
Nucflash
Nothing in your argument applies to the present day. The dudes that had to go out at 60 are all long, long gone. The situation at the time sucked. I was balled up in it (took a couple of 100% pay cuts) and yet I’m not whining and crying about the need to work longer.
The retirement age has been 65 for SIXTEEN years. Now select individuals want to change the rules they’ve been operating under for the last SIXTEEN years to suit themselves, thereby hosing everyone else's seniority for another 2. Nope! Thanks for your service and enjoy your retirement.
Wrong, I know several current individuals at my airline who lost everything at US Air and are working their tails off to recoup what they lost. I used the age 60 as an example of the horror those guys/gals faced. There are still active pilots who had many years in at USAir and have nothing to show for it. It was less than 20 years ago that this happened to them so your overall opinion lacks merit. Not to mention the decade post 2001 included concessionary contracts and a lot of furloughs for years at a time.