Originally Posted by 5tools

Yeah, it was 60 and the unions went against their memebership then as well and supported it to go to 65. Go look it up. One union in particualar their President spent union money and testified before congress in favor of changing it, claiming age was just a number, and the membership majority was against it then, but that did not stop them. Also ALPA was for age 65 as well. So you can't have it both ways. Show me a accident report where by age caused a accident in 121 operations or even 135 opertations. I'll wait.

Statement of Capt. Duane E. Woerth: The FAA Age 60 Rule (alpa.org) ALPA polled their membership and this was their intial response, but later went on and supported the age change to 65! Having it both ways?