I think managements everywhere are terrified of simultaneous mass retirements for many years and they will do anything and everything to mitigate it for as long as possible. The all out assault on international relief pilots they are waging with the proposed FTDTs is likely one of many pillars of their stratedgy. Raising the retirement age even more if they can will be another pillar. Look for increased pushes for cabotage, an increased abuse of interlines (to partially "get around" scope, no matter how proportional) and an all out assault on scope clauses themselves. We can bet they do NOT want to pay that kind of training costs which will be unlike anything they've ever seen AND because its happening industry-wide, maybe even have to deal with upwards pressure on labor costs at the same time. Their biggest weapon against us will be them trying to leverage our own greed and myopia. They will dangle some tasty carrots in front of generation retirement (indusry wide) in an attempt to get us to gut our own scope, go along with a masive reduction in relief pilots, etc. Watch for it.