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President signed bill earlier tonight....
Source?
The efficiency of getting it through eventually is breathtaking.The President signed HR 4343. Evidently he decided that one more day of pilots
getting hosed was one day too many.
It's over. The age of our retirement is now 65.
AA pilots union website... been following it all day. the only union who attempted to take a stand!!!
Yaaa....and their stand had so much influence on Capitol Hill that the total vote in the House out of 435 members was 390-0...Thats a zero...nada...zilch...not even a token "no"...
So the FAA is not required for the implementation of the new age? A pilot who's 60th birthday is tomorrow can continue to fly for 5 more years?
The President signed HR 4343. Evidently he decided that one more day of pilots
getting hosed was one day too many.
It's over. The age of our retirement is now 65.
President signed bill earlier tonight....
Yeah. Can you imagine the airline pilot born on 12 Dec 1947? Arghhh!
Nope. Not true. President will sign HR 4343 on Friday, December 14th.
Andy,
It wasn't passed in three days. APAAD has been working for this legislation for 10 years. Legislation has been introduced many times over many years. This year it was introduced as HB 2881 in the House and S 65 in the Senate. 314 cosponsors were signed on in in the House and 51 cosponsors signed on in the Senate. The stand alone bills never got out of committee. However, the language was included in the FAA Reauthorization Bill and the Senate Transportation Bill. HR 4343 is the culmination of over 10 years of effort by a multitude of pilots to end a rule that was originally imposed for economic not safety reasons.
The three day movement of this issue through the House and Senate to the President was simply the most expeditious procedural method to achieve a desired result that has taken over ten years of concerted effort by thousands of pilots.