Originally Posted by
BlueJetDork
In 2006 ICAO implemented Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) to raise the age limit from 60 to 65 for pilots undertaking multi-pilot international commercial air transport (CAT) operations. Building on the work already done by ICAO through the Medical Provisions Study Group over the past 19 years in considering further extensions of age limits, this paper proposes that ICAO now raise the age to 67 years. This change should follow a similar approach to that which was successfully applied in 2006, and be implemented within a framework of additional safety assurance measures.
ACTION A: Calls on ICAO to raise the upper age limit for international multi-pilot CAT operations from 65 to 67 now.
In 2003, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) began discussions to increase the pilot retirement age to 65.
After three years of debate and consultation, ICAO formally amended its standards in November 2006.
In 2007, Congress passed the
Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act, which raised the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots from 60 to 65. The bill was signed into law on December 13, 2007.
The stand alone LEPF bill has very small chance. The 118th congress is one of the most contentious in history.
Even if ICAO instantly raised the age this week, as opposed to taking 3 years like last time, then a bill would have to be passed in congress.
ICAO would make a pathway for that bill, but it would still likely get hung up.
This has to pass through a UN agency that moves at the speed of smell followed by a strongly divided congress going to extreme measures to disrupt each other.
I think anyone trying to raise funds by saying the age will be raised in the United States anytime soon is kind of disingenuous to those with months left.