Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
If the airline is engaged in part 121 operations outside the US and Canada, the lower of age 67 or the ICAO mandatory retirements age shall be considered the mandatory retirement age for any pilot at that airline. If the airline operates solely within the United States and Canada, a pilot may serve until they turn 67
pretty sure regionals pretty much only fly to US/Canada/Mexico. (Add Mexico to the above if they also don’t have a retirement age like Canada). other than allegiant, this would pretty much separate regionals from majors without explicitly creating a different rule for them. Also would solve the issue of pilots over 65 flying for international carriers like UA, AA and DL.
You could probably do that if it's distinct by fleet, not airline and maybe set a threshold like 90% domestic, to prevent airlines from operating one flight annually on Jan 1st between SAN and TIJ as a pretext to get rid of all 65+.
The current language in the bill does not address how airlines are to handle pilots who are too old for international ops and that's a can of worms anyway. Congress really needs to get the airlines some guardrails on that.