Originally Posted by
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None of that seems concerning for only 2 more years. A small percentage of retirees would come back any way and there is not legal justification to be at their previous justification.
therefore ALPA can be politically irrelevant and stay on their present side, similar to asking for this secondary barrier that makes all of us and them look like they are trying to build a penitentiary in the fwd galley 24 years after 9/11
I agree that very few would come back after age 65, and even if they did, it would be for less than two more years. So reasonably it's less of a looming threat than last time.
When it went to 65...
1. That was still too young for most folks to hang it up.
2. Pensions had just been canx, so many folks truly needed to work whether they wanted to or not.
3. A bunch of guys coming back for nearly five years in that climate would have been bad.