Originally Posted by
lolwut
I'll vote for whoever makes it their main stance to bring the age back to 60.
Every pilot who voluntarily works past 60 now is forcing the pilots who follow them to work past 60 just to get to where they would've been originally. Age 65 (or 70) is allowing a completely selfish group of pilots spend more years at the top on the backs of all the pilots below them, while they spent their entire career benefiting from the retirements of those ahead of them at 60.
Who wants to work to 70 anyways? Not me! I'd rather not die from old age in a hotel, on a layover, or in an airline cockpit.
Maybe its time for an anti-Part 121 Age 60+ pilot movement. Single these people out and most importantly, those who pushed for the change. Sometimes it is hard to decide if ALPA is a union or an enemy. And to the 60+ers: your selfishness and inability to plan for the future is not my fault and I shouldn't have to pay for it.
Really,
My selfish inability to plan on a 4 year furlough and upon my return find wages cut in half, no pension and no upward movement. Get yourself some more facts about some of us that are going to be working past 60. There are a lot of guys that didn't get hired until our 40s and when you cut out 4 years, lower wages, no pension - YES we'll be working past 60. Also either way (age 60 mandatory or not) it is highly unlikely I will make the left seat after a 20+ year airline career. And, who are you to judge anyone else's decision just because your upward movement has stagnated - just looking for a scapegoat.
Grow up and stop whining.