Let Experienced Pilots Fly Act (Age 67)
04-28-2024 | 11:36 PM
#4031
In a land of unicorns
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From: Whale FO
I don't believe it's dead until I see Stretch45 come here and tell what his inside sources say.
04-29-2024 | 12:16 AM
#4032
In a land of unicorns
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From: Whale FO
Anyone found it?
04-29-2024 | 02:31 AM
#4033
Line Holder
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From: Captain
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - U.S. House and Senate negotiators said early Monday they had reached a deal to boost air traffic controller staffing and boost funding to avert runway close-call incidents, but will not increase the airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65.
The U.S. House of Representatives in July voted 351-69 on a sweeping bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that would also raise the mandatory pilot retirement age to 67 but the Senate Commerce Committee had voted in February to reject the retirement age increase. International rules would have prevented airline pilots older than 65 from flying in most countries outside the United States.
04-29-2024 | 03:16 AM
#4034
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
Laugh away. It was much closer than you apparently realize. Passed in the House and went down by one vote - one - in the Senate Commerce Committee. In the end it split along party lines and ALPA held sway over the Dems. Even then it could have gone either way in Conference Committee but apparently Schumer pulled the plug and Cancun Cruz wanted to skip TSA real bad.
04-29-2024 | 03:17 AM
#4035
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Laugh away. It was much closer than you apparently realize. Passed in the House and went down by one vote - one - in the Senate Commerce Committee. In the end it split along party lines and ALPA held sway over the Dems. Even then it could have gone either way in Conference Committee but apparently Schumer pulled the plug and Cancun Cruz wanted to skip TSA real bad.
I agree with your larger point that this was a close call, but it’s not like the whole house wanted it.
04-29-2024 | 03:19 AM
#4036
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
04-29-2024 | 03:54 AM
#4037
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From: Wichita
Hallelujah!
if you’re 65, you don’t gotta go home but you can’t stay here!
if you’re 65, you don’t gotta go home but you can’t stay here!
04-29-2024 | 03:58 AM
#4038
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Yes it was close in the grand scheme because it managed to get in the HR but nobody in DC was really opposed, that vasrt majority didn't really care and it sounded like it mkight help the pilot shortage. The opposition appears to have been drummed up by industry lobbyists. ALPA certainly got some press coverage, so dues money at work. We don't know how hard the A4A lobbied against it, there could have been a lot going on behind the scenes there... that kind of lobbying is only done in public if they want it to be public.
04-29-2024 | 04:00 AM
#4039
Gets Weekends Off
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From: 767/757 CA
https://thehill.com/policy/transport...cial-security/
04-29-2024 | 04:09 AM
#4040
Bent over by buybacks
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the “majority” of pilots didn’t want to raise the age.
the “one guy” was the Congressman bother of a Delta pilot who hatched this nonsense.
And LEPF was the “special interest.”
Mainline pilots aligning themselves with anti-labor politicians and the RAA. They sold out and got nothing for it.
That photo with a bunch of LEPF pilots standing proudly next to Cruz is funny and sad.
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