IATA Calls for Raising Pilot Age Limit to 67
10-10-2025 | 10:14 AM
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According to a post on the Leprs FB page, WestJet in Canada is letting go the 65+
10-10-2025 | 10:57 AM
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From: Blue Juice Taste Tester
10-10-2025 | 11:25 AM
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[mod edit] cannot just accept that 67 won't pass , let it go! It's done and dusted , reture and go enjoy the millions you have made. Let it be and yet the younger crowd move up the seniority list!
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10-10-2025 | 12:09 PM
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From: 737 CA
10-10-2025 | 12:49 PM
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LEPFs think another lawsuit is coming. Maybe they aren’t aware frivolous lawsuits are less common in other countries. If the one here isn’t sticking, I doubt one there would even be attempted.
10-10-2025 | 02:01 PM
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This has been in the works since June:
"In June [2025], the union filed a formal policy grievance, and a Toronto-based arbitrator has since been appointed to oversee the case.
While the arbitration process moves forward, the union has also sought an interim order to prevent WestJet from enforcing the policy, according to Lewall.
The WestJet pilots MEC has filed an interim order requiring WestJet management to cease and desist its unilateral implementation of their policy change,” Lewall said.
“We are requesting that WestJet management do the right thing by maintaining the existing status quo, pending the final outcome of this arbitration.”
Lewall is the ALPA MEC Chair.
"In June [2025], the union filed a formal policy grievance, and a Toronto-based arbitrator has since been appointed to oversee the case.
While the arbitration process moves forward, the union has also sought an interim order to prevent WestJet from enforcing the policy, according to Lewall.
The WestJet pilots MEC has filed an interim order requiring WestJet management to cease and desist its unilateral implementation of their policy change,” Lewall said.
“We are requesting that WestJet management do the right thing by maintaining the existing status quo, pending the final outcome of this arbitration.”
Lewall is the ALPA MEC Chair.
10-10-2025 | 02:56 PM
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I don't know. Keeping Status quo in the US is one thing, but actually firing 65/66 year-old's is a little different. I don't know whether Canadian law will provide relief here, and I realize it genuinely creates a business problem for WestJet to staff with a number of 'domestic-only' pilots, but still...
10-10-2025 | 04:59 PM
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I don't know. Keeping Status quo in the US is one thing, but actually firing 65/66 year-old's is a little different. I don't know whether Canadian law will provide relief here, and I realize it genuinely creates a business problem for WestJet to staff with a number of 'domestic-only' pilots, but still...
Someone losing their job, unexpectedly, isn’t what I thought was good news.
That came off more insensitive than I intended.
They didn’t have roughly two decades knowing the date.
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