The age 60 rule should be changed to age 50. That way you can throw out all the senior ba*tards, lower the payroll, reduce the cost of retirement, and recall call the juniors that are entitled. When those juniors get to be 50, then you can change it bact to 60 or 65.
Since the "rule" has always been arbitrary BS, why not keep it that way? In the absence of common sense, a greater lack of common sense should be welcome.
As for ALPA, don't worry about them. ALPA is like the tide, always changing. You can count on ALPA to go with the flow, whatever flow favors the folks that run it at any given time.