Originally Posted by
tzskipper1
Or "none of the above"? Did you forget about Eastern, Pan Am, Midway, Braniff, Aloha, ATA and others that shut down? Each time (era) that these companies shut down (early 1990's and early 2000's), jobs were scarce and many pilots lost everything while hanging on for a career job. There are many of these pilots still flying.
Your broad brush assessment of peoples professional and personal lives comes across as pretty arrogant and uninformed.
Truly hopeful that you do not experience any Black Swan events during your career. Nobody deserves to go through that.
S
You hurt your argument when you bring in Braniff, Eastern, Pan Am, etc. I mean, why not point to AeroMarine Airways, even though they folded in 1924?
And you're exactly right. The younger generation will experience a black swan event. A powerful argument for keeping retirement age in place. They shouldn't pay for any bad luck or bad timing experienced by others. There never was and never will be a guaranteed ideal career in this, or any other, profession. Expecting younger pilots to stagnate two more years now, because older pilots are dissatisfied with whatever they're dissatisfied with in their careers, is silly, selfish, and **** y.