How old is too old?

[GINCHBLASTER]

How old do you look?

 

[CRJ puppy]

They have turned down a all of our 40+ guys with gobs of TJ PIC, who applied but have hired younger pilots, read under 35, who have about 1 year in the left seat and less than 500 TJ PIC, so go figure

I personally know someone who was 54 when they were hired by Spirit in the past year.

They love it btw.

 

[Jetjockey]

The days of having to be 30 or under went away with the flight attendants having be under 125 lbs.

 

[HRDiva]

They have turned down a all of our 40+ guys with gobs of TJ PIC, who applied but have hired younger pilots, read under 35, who have about 1 year in the left seat and less than 500 TJ PIC, so go figure

DH flew with a number of USA 3000 and Airborne guys as new hires at age 59 + recently and over the past two years. One had been a CA with 17 years at Airborne. The others had equally high numbers.

 

[greenlight]

1/2 your age + 7 years

 

[CUBMAN]

Wow, looks like this is generating more responses than I expected. Thanks to all of you and your views. My pay is almost unheard of for a King Air.... Lucky me, right? It is a prime indicator that the good times must soon come to an end. It is rumoured that we will receive substantial pay cuts in the future and we work too hard as it is. Home every night and never any weekend or holiday work. Trust me you dont want to work here because the managers are not intelligent in the way they run things. I will not entertain a thought of a regional unless its as a street captain making approx what I do now and I know the chances of that are about zero. Greenlight, what is 1/2 my age plus 7 mean?

 

[StarHustler]

1/2 your age + 7 years

LOL, that's funny. (Malcolm X movie quote).

Anyway, I have been thinking about this myself lately as I am late 40's with NO 121 time but about half of my 6500 hours are Part 135 Jet PIC time. I make a good income for the a/c I fly, but it is still 'on demand' charter so my schedule can suck pretty bad at times (only allowed the FAA minimum 13 regulatory days off per quarter). At my age there is a chance that if hired by a 121 like American, I might never see left seat again, but the right seat would still eventually pay good and still have a schedule.