Delta is FAA retirement age. If age changes so does the LTD plan

heard this story through the grapevine so it may be total BS, but apparently there were cases where pilots did not have a ton of time vested in the pension (I think this applies to some of the guys who came over from pan am) and thus would have had a low FAE%. instead they bid back to FE at 59.5 yo and went out on disability from that seat. Since FEs did not have a mandatory retirement age there was no age when the payments would stop as long as you were alive.