Seattle Council Proposal: No Retirement Age
 

For the January 17th council 54 meeting (Seattle), there is a resolution to direct “the Delta MEC Chairman to endorse the elimination of the mandatory retirement age for commercial pilots so long as they pass required mental and physical health exams...”

I won’t post the entire resolution publicly, other than the language above. However, the amended agenda for the Jan 17th meeting IS NOT available on the Council 54 page of DALPA’s website for you to verify. I hope it is updated soon so any Delta pilot with an interest in the topic of retirement can personally read the resolution.

Absofreakinglutely NOT. WTF?????

This needs to be killed.

No way, boomer. :p

Nope nope nope. Might need to drop a trip to attend the local meeting to oppose this one.

Read it here first...."If it happens...Just Deal with it"...."Life is life and life's not fair"....."reduce your standard of living"...."you have 15 years or more to prepare"...yada...yada...yada

Nobody mandates that you stay any longer than you want to...it will be voluntary.

This too will turn into "who's ox is getting gored". Some will claim victim-hood and the other side will use all the arguments about the "money grab of old farts" against you.


Oh .....and.... it will never happen. Time to untwist your collective panties

Yup, it'll never happen but somebody has the audacity to try to make my union work against my interests so this should get all the attention it does.

As if we have any say.

This right here...

If they follow other proposals, they are going to start increasingly intrusive medical exams at age 40. This reminds me of when the USAF started requiring treadmills on all their fighter pilots. They got a massive number of false positives with no actual true positives that wouldn’t have been detected by just the regular ECGs. The reason they knew they were false positives is because they did cardiac catheterizations on all of them. Eventually even the Air Force relented.

Cognitive testing has an even higher rate of false positives than ECGs. Think about having to do a Hogan at every exam. And if you score any different than you did last, you fail.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3838959/

Be careful what you wish for...

Denny.....are you bored and drafting resolutions again?? 😁