IATA Calls for Raising Pilot Age Limit to 67
08-28-2025 | 10:32 AM
#182
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LOL the updates get more and more unhinged every time. Someone should bring screenshots to present at the ICAO meeting. Proof of cognitive decline happening in real time.
08-28-2025 | 01:59 PM
#185
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Read your contract … status quo is mandatory retirement age … set by the regulators … your career expectations might be based on a “status quo” of the retirement age staying at 65, but the fact is that the mandatory retirement age has and will change over most everyone’s airline career … that is the status quo.
The airline seniority system in place is contractual, not regulatory … any relief to a sense of “fairness” in anyone’s sense of the effects of a change to the mandatory retirement age would have to (and should be) addressed contractually. Was it “status quo” to seek contractual relief during the COVID years to alleviate furloughs?
The airline seniority system in place is contractual, not regulatory … any relief to a sense of “fairness” in anyone’s sense of the effects of a change to the mandatory retirement age would have to (and should be) addressed contractually. Was it “status quo” to seek contractual relief during the COVID years to alleviate furloughs?
08-28-2025 | 03:51 PM
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Def of status quo is “ existing conditions”. Conditions can change for a number of reasons, just as it did in 07 when the age went from 60 to 65. No where in any airline contract does it guarantee any of us will upgrade. Just like the flow thru to American, that can flow backwards. Also, I believe there were pilots who went from the left seat to right seat after 9/11 at many of the majors and spent a few years back in the right seat.
08-28-2025 | 04:13 PM
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Def of status quo is “ existing conditions”. Conditions can change for a number of reasons, just as it did in 07 when the age went from 60 to 65. No where in any airline contract does it guarantee any of us will upgrade. Just like the flow thru to American, that can flow backwards. Also, I believe there were pilots who went from the left seat to right seat after 9/11 at many of the majors and spent a few years back in the right seat.
08-28-2025 | 04:25 PM
#188
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They do, indeed. American Eagle, before it became a brand and an airline called Envoy, had a flow through to American which included a provision for flowbacks, which was used quite a bit in the aftermath of 9/11.
08-28-2025 | 04:51 PM
#189
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Well there were flowbacks and there was talk of it again in 2020 with Covid when American furloughed 1600 pilots. So facts only matter to you when it’s convenient. Like the Republic pilots standing in food stamps line in their uniform. Still waiting on someone to produce that memo they claim was sent out by Republic.
08-28-2025 | 04:58 PM
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From: Picking up the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnix.
And as discussed earlier. ALPA showed up in our new hire class in 1994 at Wings West/Eagle and “suggested” that we not wear our pilot uniforms if we applied for food stamps. I never did. Mowed lawns and cut firewood on the side.
we were RAPA. It was a real joke.
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