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So, when the DAY comes, and you are still droning along in your CRJ or ERJ, what or who will be to blame for your miserable existence?
 
Nobody guaranteed you a job in a seat occupied by someone else or by climbing over their back. You have to be a scab to do that. Otherwise, wait your turn. For every one of you complaining here there is a similar hardship story on the older or senior side of the equation. It's been a tough 35 years since deregulation. Once the reset is complete, everyone gets a longer career model. Where you fall during the reset is just a spin of the wheel called life. Weren't in the right place at the right time, stayed in the military too long, waited too long to crank up your career, born too young, born too late, picked the wrong airline? Stuff happens. That piece of poop called the Age 60 Rule was crap when the Feds imposed and it smelled even worse (as most bureaucratic regs do) 50 years later. Time for a change. Change happened. Move on. Only a couple hundred days to go and the reset wheels are turning. End of story.

Flame away. Who cares.
 
Hey Laker4284, What is invisible and smells like bananas? Monkey Farts!

obviously you care that you are about to be on the receiving end of a retirement letter. Congrats, I will say hello to you at the Sonic drive in. Best of luck. By the way.



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Crapola, we are almost sub 200's. Let the good times roll. Joke of the day, what separates alcoholics from prostitutes??? Cockpit door. question is, who is on what side of the door.
 
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Next joke, what is the difference between a woman from WV and a catfish?? Well, one has whiskers and smells like ********************, the other is a fish.
 
laker4284 said:
Nobody guaranteed you a job in a seat occupied by someone else or by climbing over their back. You have to be a scab to do that. Otherwise, wait your turn. For every one of you complaining here there is a similar hardship story on the older or senior side of the equation. It's been a tough 35 years since deregulation. Once the reset is complete, everyone gets a longer career model. Where you fall during the reset is just a spin of the wheel called life. Weren't in the right place at the right time, stayed in the military too long, waited too long to crank up your career, born too young, born too late, picked the wrong airline? Stuff happens. That piece of poop called the Age 60 Rule was crap when the Feds imposed and it smelled even worse (as most bureaucratic regs do) 50 years later. Time for a change. Change happened. Move on. Only a couple hundred days to go and the reset wheels are turning. End of story.

Flame away. Who cares.
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But age 65 is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better.

Hypocrite much?
 
LeeRoyJenkins said:
But age 65 is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better.

Hypocrite much?
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It’s simple, really: No hypocrisy, only pragmatism over perfection. 65 was the most that could be done politically. It gave five more years to the profession in general, five more years to older guys in the short term, while minimizing the impact to younger guys. Not perfect but, then again, there’s not much that is perfect on this world. In 218 days the wheel will have completed its turn and the reset is complete.
 
laker4284 said:
It gave five more years to the profession in general, five more years to older guys in the short term, while minimizing the impact to younger guys.
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I don't have the same problem with the rule change that so many other folks here seem to, but let's not pretend this was done with "minimizing the impact to younger guys" as a major priority. Folks who didn't already have a good seat when the music stopped are not feeling the love, and the change happening as the wheels started to come of the economy did not help matters.

If you're one of the older guys who needed those five years to make last-minute adjustments to dashed retirement plans, I feel for you. But a lot of the people on this board will never make the kind of money in this business that pilots made in The Good Old Days™, and they sure do love to vent.
 
Go back and find some of the e-mails and letters flying around in the last months of 2007 and early 2008 (there's plenty available on line). The hard core guys were pushing for no retirement age and return of those already retired. The moderate bunch which included APAAD's leadership were holding tight to a middle-of-the-road age stance. There was a nasty little dogfight between those two groups in the time frame right around when the law was signed. It could have been a lot worse for younger guys. A LOT worse. Doesn't matter now. As I said before, the wheel is about done turning.
 
Anyone who thinks that this was a net neutral effect because young guys get and extra five years does not understand the time value of money.

Or they are pretending not to understand it so they can rationalize the theft of income from junior pilots.
 
Bake said:
Next joke, what is the difference between a woman from WV and a catfish?? Well, one has whiskers and smells like ********************, the other is a fish.
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What's the difference between a playing card and Africa?

One is the ace of spades, the other is the space of aids.
 

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