Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
But please tell me... having bearing on this conversation, how do you justify ALPA's actions in 2007 when it went against the wishes of the majority of membership with respect to Age 60? I refuse to buy the notion that "we wanted to have a say in implementation..." as if ALPA would somehow be "punished" for representing the will of its membership?
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I was against it as well, but even I can understand once ALPA decided stopping it was no longer an option, making sure that guidelines like not allowing pilots to return at previous seniority, medical requirements, and implementation timeline were still to be hashed out.
I still think due to the abysmal state of the pilot market at that time, ALPA should have pivoted and lobbied for a phased in extension, like one year retirement age raise every two so that there weren't select winners with 5yrs of seniority all the while furloughs and stagnation for everyone else. I emailed my rep with that suggestion, but apparently it wasn't popular.