IATA Calls for Raising Pilot Age Limit to 67
08-23-2025 | 02:43 PM
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Functional and Blood-Based Biomarkers of Brain Aging in Senior Airline Pilots Approaching Mandatory Retirement: A Case-Control Comparison With Age-Matched Office Workers | Cureus
https://www.cureus.com/articles/4051...office-workers
https://www.cureus.com/articles/4051...office-workers
08-23-2025 | 02:50 PM
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Interesting work; it does seem to support potentially raising the age to 65.
08-23-2025 | 02:50 PM
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a) support the extension of the upper age limit for pilots engaged in multi-pilot international
commercial air transport (CAT) to 67 years, provided another pilot is under age 65;
That part makes sense, and is actually good for younger pilots since it allows older, senior pilots who want to remain FO/IRO to do so, potentially freeing upgrade slots.
Right now an older, senior FO can have bidding issues, since many or most of the best trips go to senior CA's , who are also old. A 60+ can't bid those (unless somebody's CBA has a provision where they get paid to not fly in that case).
So old, senior FO's currently have an incentive to upgrade since they can't even fly senior trips as FO/IRO. The IATA proposal would narrow that window from five down to two years.
08-23-2025 | 02:52 PM
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https://www.icao.int/sites/default/f.../wp_349_en.pdf
Link works. 42nd ICAO Conference starts Sept 2025.
IATA is a major player in ICAO.
Link works. 42nd ICAO Conference starts Sept 2025.
IATA is a major player in ICAO.
Countries are members of ICAO, not other organizations.
08-23-2025 | 02:55 PM
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Functional and Blood-Based Biomarkers of Brain Aging in Senior Airline Pilots Approaching Mandatory Retirement: A Case-Control Comparison With Age-Matched Office Workers | Cureus
https://www.cureus.com/articles/4051...office-workers
https://www.cureus.com/articles/4051...office-workers
08-23-2025 | 02:58 PM
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IATA represents the airlines, and as always, money talks. UN in general is inherently subject to whims of politics, influence, corruption, etc. That is to say they are not standing by any resolved, principled positions in the face of all adversity.
08-23-2025 | 03:01 PM
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1) Don't have any GA or military pilot pools to speak of.
2) Usually don't pay well enough to attract a lot of US pilots (the largest pool).
08-23-2025 | 03:27 PM
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The fact that they mention “severe pilot shortage” in the conclusion ensures it’s a farce. No neuroscientist conducting a legitimate study would do that. In addition, they didn’t study anyone over 64 and compared them to “office workers” with no baseline for either group. This is hilarious! Sample size was a whopping 31 people (Lepfers?).
And to your point above, if they are having trouble finding pilots to hire maybe they could start by paying them better.
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