Originally Posted by Boeing Aviator

From a different pilot forum.


"too selfish to play by the rules"..."pulling up the ladder on those younger".....

Laughable, hypocritical BS. The "majority" here want the 65's to get out for one reason only: money and seniority. The exact same reason the ones who wish to stay have.

Not all of us age 64 are blessed with the thirty year, wide body captain career here. I would have started here in my late twenties or early thirties, but alas, I was too busy screwing around, serving my country and YOUR safety and security, and then toiling at the regional for 10 years, then another FOUR while furloughed immediately after hired here... thanks, ALPA, for the outsourcing, and the merger, BTW. This pilot group worked under bankruptcy contract conditions for years, finally out of that December of 2012. So a lot of us have only been able to really save for retirement since then.

Pilot retirement ages have always been about one thing only, Money. Not about health, safety, cognition, etc.

“It is pure age discrimination, if you are honest about it. and your self-righteous blathering about the "greedy" older pilots "screwing" you is your own version of self-interest and greed....

But whatever, moving on soon. Best wishes, hope the upcoming furlough from war, terrorism, resession, depression, merger, etc. doesn't bite YOU too hard, and you don't have to keep working until YOUR full social security retirement age.