40k in 1990 is about 100k today if you use CPI inflation numbers. But it’s also worth noting health insurance was free (or so I’m told) and cost of housing was much lower.

also based on the pay tables Timbo posted in another thread that seems to work out to an average of 60 hours a month as a 727 FE.

Can you point factually to a single point that is wrong? And your rebuttal wasn’t even a coherent response to anything I said. Where did I mention stagnation?

It's remarkable and laughable that you think Congress would or would not be "too fond of the young guys calling 'stagnation,'" whatever that means.

It's adorable that the 67 crowd thinks this is anywhere in Congress's top 100 priorites.

And now they're running around Washington, handing out a letter of such poor quality and so lacking in coherence an 8th grader would be ashamed to turn in at school. If anything, once Congress sees some of the folks handing out this letter, they might be terrified that these pilots want to keep flying.

ALPA today posted that Age 67 will harm the public and raise prices and hurt the industry.

A moment before posting that gem ALPA posted:

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...mA&oe=65A55DA5

ALPA does not give two squirts about the public interest and most everyone with a brain knows it.

I sure would like to know what Alpa’s position is. Their published official position is anti-Age67, yet some of the names on that letter work/worked for DALPA actively lobbying Capitol Hill. I’ve seen their pictures in ALPA magazine on the front steps! Are my PAC contributions going to further stagnate my career? Maybe time to cut funding the PAC.

ALPA has been crystal clear what their position is. They are against raising the mandatory retirement age to 67. And the signers of that letter are undermining ALPA, their peers, and this profession in the name of their own self-interest and greed. The vast majority of pilots do not support raising the mandatory retirement age to 67.

Congress isn’t composed of educated people or even coherent people at this point. These people are some of the most immoral and corrupt people on the planet. They have no shame. Even the ones that went to Ivy league schools are compromised by political affiliation and not by independent thinking even if it causes them to throw basic common sense out the window.

ALPA is supporting another labor group. Organized labor should support organized labor.

Age 67 would harm the public by raising ticket prices for a very logical reason:

If age 67 passes and ICAO doesn’t reciprocate (which they have indicated they aren’t going to. Even Canada just came out and said they won’t allow any U.S. pilots over the age of 65 to fly in their airspace) then there will be pilots sitting at home with pay every month, unable to fly. Or best case scenario ALPA (the organization they’re actively undermining) and the airlines negotiate a buy-out of those pilots… Either way those incurred costs will be tens of millions and those will be directly passed on to passengers. The airlines aren’t just going to eat those incurred costs.

I don't think they'll be invited back.

How did this post get buried? It’s a great question worth discussing.