Have fun spending that extra million when you are dead shortly after retiring.

Not that anyone cares but I'd be out if they changed the retirement age, or at least be on an expedited exit plan. 60 to 65 was a sham to begin with, this career needs to have more movement, not stagnant. Or better yet, get rid of the seniority based bidding system for people extending beyond 65, retain the pay but the "65+" pilot needs to go to the bottom of the bid status.

You won't need to. The drone pilot at HQ will just send an "alarm clock" signal to get you up prior to descent.

Some airplanes already do it if you don't make some kind of system input for 20 minutes.

You can add Australia and New Zealand to the list👍

The bloody alarm disturbs my naps:mad:

Nothing disturbs YOUR naps. :D

well in that case, I will support the airline shaming movement for climate change and have you stagnated even more. you must be a joy.

I agree 100%, anybody staying beyond 65 should go to the bottom of the list. They benefited their entire career from people retiring at 60 and now 65. There used to be a term for those guys who refused to retire and became FEs.

But you need the rest of the story...

Average life expectancy was HIGHLY skewed by infant/youth mortality back then (especially from all those diseases the anti-vaxers are working so hard to bring back).

If you actually survived long enough to pay into SS, odds are good you'd collect. Healthy adults didn't keel over dead at 45 much more frequently than they do now. Many of them actually got quite a lot of exercise and ate organic (if fat-heavy) foods. Google the founding fathers... on average their life spans were closer to 70 than 40.

Hush, stop using logic and data to prove it is just plain old greed why many want the age limit to increase, and for that matter don’t. Greed is instinct to humans. Put one toy in front of two children, a toy they both want, and watch what happens. The toy just changes to money (power, popularity, notoriety, praise, love, etc) as we grow.