What about all the pilots like me who began their career with a company knowing and planning that they could fly past age 60 but then the rules changed.


All Airline pilots need a rule that poses the least harm to all across the board, a rule that best assures their future not one that merely placates their situation early in their careers. There are just too many pilots now who at one time worked for Braniff, Pan Am, Eastern Frontier, or other carriers gone bankrupt, merged or otherwise forced to seek employment elsewhere, starting on probation wages.... again. Many pilots have four or five different uniforms in their closet, gaining seniority only in age, and need to work beyond age 60 to enjoy a decent retirement. Only the largest major airlines have the big pensions, and therefore are against any change, however, with the demise of the younger hiring age, many of their newer pilots are realizing the possibility of inadequate pensions at age 60. Most, if not all, smaller or newer carriers do not have a fixed benefit retirement. For those pilots, retiring at age 60 could be their worst nightmare. Realization of this fact may come to late for the non-forward thinking as they get nearer to the guillotine of the “Age 60 Rule”.