Originally Posted by
Brian3613
The mandatory 60 retirement age eventually going to be raised. As time goes on and with advancement in medicine we are living longer and healthier lives. It only makes sense for it to be raised.
This is true. It obviously should not be open-ended, but lifestyle and medical advances have easily bought us another 5 years on average.
I'm a relatively younger guy who would be hurt more than helped by this in the near term, but it is not right to have a rule on the books that came into existence for the economic convenience of the airlines.