Airline Pilot Central Forums - FAA to extend mandatory retirement age

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Originally Posted by BoilerUP (Post 2371844)

I'd argue ICAO Annex 1 would have to raise the retirement age before the FAA and Congress attempted it.

True for international ops. But the US has plenty of domestic ops, and could easily make bilateral/multilateral arrangements with other North American countries to allow ops there as well.

Whether ICAO goes for it would probably depend on the global pilot shortage, which by all accounts is going to be worse and last longer than the one in the US.