Care to share evidence of advocacy for retirement age extension you demonstrated more than five years ago? Have you written senators asking them to lift ALL age limits and force employers to re-hire retirees at their previous seniority, with back pay and a retroactive profit sharing re-distribution? Shaming folks for advocating in their best interests is pretty ridiculous if you ask me (you didn’t).

You know who impresses me? The pilots who say “I’ve had a great run and it’s time to move on like all those who moved on to my own benefit”. Something I hope to emulate myself down the road, somewhere around age 60. I’ve chatted with enough old timers to have internalized the false promise of another $500-800k in the out years when death is almost certainly less than 30 years away and basic mobility might even be gone in 5-10. 4,000 weeks is a full life on average; less than 800 Fridays left by age 65 is a pretty sweet time to walk away from working for the man. A forced-out is actually more blessing than curse IMHO. I know we’ve all got our own opinions but for the time being ALPA representatives are properly representing their constituents on the issue. I expect that trend to continue - amidst frivolous lawsuits or not.