Panel Splits on Raising Airline Pilot Retirement Age
12-01-2006, 01:46 PM
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Panel Splits on Raising Airline Pilot Retirement Age
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...3GXOo&refer=us
Could someone please explain to me how and why it is discriminatory to force a pilot to retire at age 60 but it is not discriminatory to force that same pilot to retire at age 65?
I find it perplexing that a group calling themselves Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination would support replacing one number with a different number.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't this still age discrimination? Wouldn't retirement based on ones ability to pass a Class I physical be the only true non-discriminatory policy?
Perhaps this group should call themselves Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination for Age 60 Pilots but in favor of Discrimating Against Those Older Than Age 65?"
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"Six panel members opposed raising the age, including four representatives of the Air Line Pilots Association, the world's largest pilot union. The panelists from AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and its Allied Pilots Association also opposed any change.
The four panelists who favored raising the age were from Southwest Airlines Co., JetBlue Airways Corp., the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association and a group called Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination."
The four panelists who favored raising the age were from Southwest Airlines Co., JetBlue Airways Corp., the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association and a group called Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination."
Could someone please explain to me how and why it is discriminatory to force a pilot to retire at age 60 but it is not discriminatory to force that same pilot to retire at age 65?
I find it perplexing that a group calling themselves Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination would support replacing one number with a different number.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't this still age discrimination? Wouldn't retirement based on ones ability to pass a Class I physical be the only true non-discriminatory policy?
Perhaps this group should call themselves Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination for Age 60 Pilots but in favor of Discrimating Against Those Older Than Age 65?"
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12-01-2006, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by TipsyMcStagger
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...3GXOo&refer=us
I find it perplexing that a group calling themselves Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination would support replacing one number with a different number.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't this still age discrimination? Wouldn't retirement based on ones ability to pass a Class I physical be the only true non-discriminatory policy?
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I find it perplexing that a group calling themselves Airline Pilots Against Age Discrimination would support replacing one number with a different number.
I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but isn't this still age discrimination? Wouldn't retirement based on ones ability to pass a Class I physical be the only true non-discriminatory policy?
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05-28-2017, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Rama
True its still discrimination, but I don't really want a healthy 75 year old with inch thick glassed driving me or my family around. I also don't want to be that 75 year old.
05-28-2017, 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by rcole
Would you rather have a healthy 75 year old with normal vision, excellent health and a lifetime of experience flying you around or the 45 year old that is overweight and barely able to pass the medical exam flying you around..? Whatever happened to common sense? We have testing and screening for a reason. Let it function. Away with arbitrary and unreasonably discriminatory rules.
A bad case of thread-necrophilia.. How appropriate...
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05-29-2017, 06:14 AM
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Not yet quite 60. While carding some of the lowest rounds of my life, albeit from white tees, have to admit the obvious; in no way the same motor vehicle operator I was at 30. Where and how does the system draw the line?
There may be no perfectly fair answer.
There may be no perfectly fair answer.
05-29-2017, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by METO Guido
Not yet quite 60. While carding some of the lowest rounds of my life, albeit from white tees, have to admit the obvious; in no way the same motor vehicle operator I was at 30. Where and how does the system draw the line?
There may be no perfectly fair answer.
There may be no perfectly fair answer.
05-29-2017, 08:45 AM
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At age 65 one must hang up the goggles for part 121 operations. However, that same pilot who turned age 65 today can fly the same jet the next day under parts 125, 91 and 135, baring the payload restrictions under 135, and contracts under 125. Go figure.
Better yet some countries in the South Pacific did not adopt the ICAO age 65 age retirement either.
Better yet some countries in the South Pacific did not adopt the ICAO age 65 age retirement either.
05-29-2017, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by captjns
At age 65 one must hang up the goggles for part 121 operations. However, that same pilot who turned age 65 today can fly the same jet the next day under parts 125, 91 and 135, baring the payload restrictions under 135, and contracts under 125. Go figure.
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