Its not the biggest issue by any means and no one is claimig it is. Its certainlly not worth "opening up the contract" or whatever.

But I would support a future change to age within a new hire class because that is more fair to older pilots within a class. The myth of "age related lawsuits" is a nothingburger.

There is nothing inherently unfair about a 23 year old ninja with a 9999 last 4 being the plug within a class while the 61 year old flow with a 0001 number gets that one little advantage one time. Its actually more fair because the ninja will have decades more long after the older ones are gone. They don't need a few more numbers right out the gate.