Read your contract … status quo is mandatory retirement age … set by the regulators … your career expectations might be based on a “status quo” of the retirement age staying at 65, but the fact is that the mandatory retirement age has and will change over most everyone’s airline career … that is the status quo.

The airline seniority system in place is contractual, not regulatory … any relief to a sense of “fairness” in anyone’s sense of the effects of a change to the mandatory retirement age would have to (and should be) addressed contractually. Was it “status quo” to seek contractual relief during the COVID years to alleviate furloughs?