IATA Calls for Raising Pilot Age Limit to 67
08-30-2025 | 02:13 PM
#241
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That’s a great compromise!
According to the EPAS FB Group, it’s now about ageism. They aren’t greedy, they are leading the fight against oppression!
They compare it to racism or sexism. (Although one of them blamed the recent accidents on minorities and females. Not even joking.)
I am sure they have all been fighting against this atrocity their entire career and not just at the last minute when it benefits them…
08-30-2025 | 04:18 PM
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Public safety decisions shouldn’t be done on guesswork with a “see how it goes” approach. That’s what’s being proposed.
Even ‘til this day the F/O(if over 40) requires a 6 month interval on Class I physicals to accommodate the age increase to 65.
If the other pilot’s medical requirements need to be bolstered to accommodate this, you’re admitting exactly what you’d like to disprove - that the aging pilot is less safe. Either that, or you just don’t know. And if you just don’t know, then we shouldn’t be doing it.
Even ‘til this day the F/O(if over 40) requires a 6 month interval on Class I physicals to accommodate the age increase to 65.
If the other pilot’s medical requirements need to be bolstered to accommodate this, you’re admitting exactly what you’d like to disprove - that the aging pilot is less safe. Either that, or you just don’t know. And if you just don’t know, then we shouldn’t be doing it.
08-31-2025 | 05:42 AM
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So now its a matter of safety? That's not what I have been consistently been hearing. The first class medical is required for captains and typically first officers. The captains have to get a new one every 6 months, 12 months for first officers. At age 35 an EKG is required, and then again at age 40 and once a year there after. I don't recall any of that being tied to age 65 when it happened, but then again I'm one the old fogies. By the way I'm old enough to have seen exceptionally good and bad pilots of all ages.
08-31-2025 | 06:00 AM
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Well, which is it? Is it about safety, or is it about your seniority, career progression and "fairness"? If we started restricting old coots to right seat, my money is on that you wouldn't squawk at all.
08-31-2025 | 06:25 AM
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That’s a great compromise!
According to the EPAS FB Group, it’s now about ageism. They aren’t greedy, they are leading the fight against oppression!
They compare it to racism or sexism. (Although one of them blamed the recent accidents on minorities and females. Not even joking.)
I am sure they have all been fighting against this atrocity their entire career and not just at the last minute when it benefits them…
According to the EPAS FB Group, it’s now about ageism. They aren’t greedy, they are leading the fight against oppression!
They compare it to racism or sexism. (Although one of them blamed the recent accidents on minorities and females. Not even joking.)
I am sure they have all been fighting against this atrocity their entire career and not just at the last minute when it benefits them…
08-31-2025 | 06:28 AM
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Australia and New Zealand don't have an age limit and it seems to work ok for them. I mean yeah if they were to do away with the mandatory retirement it will screw most of us in the industry short term, it will help most of us long term, but overall it will be better systemically.
08-31-2025 | 06:56 AM
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08-31-2025 | 07:26 AM
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Australia and New Zealand don't have an age limit and it seems to work ok for them. I mean yeah if they were to do away with the mandatory retirement it will screw most of us in the industry short term, it will help most of us long term, but overall it will be better systemically.
08-31-2025 | 08:03 AM
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Australia and New Zealand don't have an age limit and it seems to work ok for them. I mean yeah if they were to do away with the mandatory retirement it will screw most of us in the industry short term, it will help most of us long term, but overall it will be better systemically.
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