Age 60 rule--SWA, Fedex and UPS hiring

[Airmike767]

The european Carriers will be flying into the USA with over 60 Captains, as they now do with over 60 FOs. The issue is fairness and stopping discrimination. The training scheduling issues will be resolved. I beleive that TWA did a study several years ago on a class and followed it through age 60. Only 30% were still around at age 60. Lots of us plan to retire at sixty but many need to continue to work due to failed companies, lost pensions or no pensions. There are many pilots out there who have never worked at a major and never received the higher pay and ability to retire at any age prior to SSN and Medicare. It is unfair to relegate these pilots to poverty and the WalMart greeter position because some new hire wants his Captain's seat sooner.

It was always unfair and I hope it changes on schedule in November 2006 with the rest of the ICAO participating world.

 

[K. Marx]

The european Carriers will be flying into the USA with over 60 Captains, as they now do with over 60 FOs. The issue is fairness and stopping discrimination.

The courts have already ruled that this is not discrimination. Europeans do a lot of things different from us, and they are equally as irrelevant.

 

[Airmike767]

So, I guess the over sixty crowd should just moveon to Europe.