Age 60 informal poll

[waveflyer]

good point Pipe

think about that old guys... especially if you don't need to be flying... you're looking at a generation of pilots that will be well into their 40's before they have any semblance of a career

scope + 65 = boomers = most selfish/wasteful generation

 

[JoeMerchant]

good point Pipe

think about that old guys... especially if you don't need to be flying... you're looking at a generation of pilots that will be well into their 40's before they have any semblance of a career

scope + 65 = boomers = most selfish/wasteful generation

Actually the new generation can be very selfish.....I doubt you give a d@mn about the 60 year old who has had to start over 5 or 6 times and is still an FO....

Both sides look at this issue through their eyes.....YOU included......

Changing age 60 has hurt me...but it was the right thing to do.....ALPA originally opposed making 60 the retirement age....But then the A funds came and they supported it....Nobody gave a d@mn about the carriers that didn't have A funds....Then when the A funds went away, ALPA changed their position back again....Politics all around....Get over it.....

 

[pipe]

Actually the new generation can be very selfish.....I doubt you give a d@mn about the 60 year old who has had to start over 5 or 6 times and is still an FO....

Both sides look at this issue through their eyes.....YOU included......

Changing age 60 has hurt me...but it was the right thing to do.....ALPA originally opposed making 60 the retirement age....But then the A funds came and they supported it....Nobody gave a d@mn about the carriers that didn't have A funds....Then when the A funds went away, ALPA changed their position back again....Politics all around....Get over it.....

I'm sure the negative effects of an overnight change were earth-shattering at ASA (massive sarcasm intended). The high road gets more and more crowded the less you are personally affected.

PIPE

 

[waveflyer]

yeah-- gen x has been so selfish in how they've taken it up the arse....
what have we got, that anyone could accuse us of being selfish?

 

[pipe]

yeah-- gen x has been so selfish in how they've taken it up the arse....
what have we got, that anyone could accuse us of being selfish?

11 years as an airline pilot. 4 airlines. Total of nine months as a line holder. Year 7 of a furlough. I have really stuck it to those bastards. At the pearly gates I'm gonna have a hell of a time explaining the abject selfishness.

Oh wait, those guys lost their pensions. Hell, they lost mine before it even started!

PIPE

 

[Flopgut]

CAL has 300+ pilots over 60. The ERW (early retirement window) that could have provided 100k paid out over 24 months to participants failed to meet the 251 min number needed. So if you are listening to some old guy talk about only going to 62, they are probably lying to you. Taking the lump sum and 100k would have made them whole.

This is why we need to be worried about Prater and this same group wanting to go past 65.

I can tell you this for certain: If CAL interviewed both the potential furloughs and the guys over 60 to see who would stay? The number of both groups would be very near zero.

 

[ivauir]

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Changing age 60 has hurt me...but it was the right thing to do......

DING DING DING BULLSH!TTER DETECTED.

It was the "right thing to do" - spare me!

Please please captain sir show another F#*^&! picture of your boat. How about a swell lecture on politics religion or finance.

I'm SO pleased to get another 5 years of listening to your BS.

 

[UndauntedFlyer]

I'm SO pleased to get another 5 years of listening to your BS.

I'm glad you have an understanding regarding the value of learning from those who are senior to you.

 

[ivauir]

I'm glad you have an understanding regarding the value of learning from those who are senior to you.

Your posts are proof just how valuable that instruction can be.

 

[Mamma]

I'm glad you have an understanding regarding the value of learning from those who are senior to you.

Seniority and wisdom are not necessarily related. I might be so bold that there is some value learning from those who are less senior to you.