Originally Posted by
Andy
I posted this with the text just so everyone could see how poorly this is worded in current legislation. It really needs to be cleaned up. I'm waiting to see what comes out of the Senate on this issue; hopefully it's more detailed.
Even if ALPA doesn't get involved with cleaning up the language, there's still likely to be some inputs from the FAA and airlines to tighten up the language.
It would probably be best if the language specifies directly that retirees are not entitled to return to previous positions. It's kind of implied, but somebody would probably sue and who knows what might come of that.
In 2007 there was language that said they not only don't get to come back to their previous position but also that they can't come back at all... so only those under 60 on the effective got another five years. I don't think they'd do the later provision this time... the whole point is to keep those flying something, somewhere.