Originally Posted by
Albief15
The "right thing" would be for you to back away from the pie plate and let someone else get a bite. I don't hold my breath on that happening. If 60 goes away, a lot of folks will get a huge windfall, and you're probably one of them. Eat it up you old greedy bastards. A bunch of us will be looking for our money and job satisfaction in other side gigs...because our airline careers just took a 5 year hit if things change. Yeah...you earned it all right...by following a generation of guys who retired at 60 to make room for YOU.
Albie, seems to me you're the greedy younger bastard. You move from a full time Air force job to a company like FedEx. You could be a wide body after only a few years, or possibly a narrow body Captain. No fear of furlough, no keeping your options open because you know the other shoe will drop either next week ornext month.
There a a lot of people around FedEx that had their careers change. People from Braniff, PanAm, Continental, Frontier and many others. I've been lucky, but still got to spend 8+ years on furlough. I also bid Captain first chance, because I had learned in this business the second chance is not guaranteed. BTW that was 16 years after my original DOH.
Yes, the generation before was forced to retire at age 60 although their union ALPA fought it. Just because they were forced to retire it did not make it right then, and it is not right today.