Furloughed80
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I think you will find it is actually age 68.
The situation in Japan as far as pilot shortages is dire...! Both ANA & JAL have massive retirements and they are expanding their international routes with big A/C orders. Both companies have a contractual retirement age of 60 but they have relaxed the contract to allow over 60 pilots to come back to the line but they have had to offer big bonuses to get people to come back with an over 60 contract, these pilots are indeed restricted to domestic flights and can fly international long haul as cruise captains or F/O's (not PIC) JAL in particular is having serious problems to get people to stay beyond age 60..., people just want to retire and not deal with the strict medicals pass the age of 60..., also the fact that they lose their RTC/TRE certification and are only allowed to stay in the training department as SIM instructors. Pass the age of 63 the medical gets even tougher and many fail it, so the chance that someone will remain on the line until 67 is slim...! Lots of rumors about JAL planing to offer a foreign pilot contract due to not being able to cover their schedules. Captains are downgraded to F/O's under certain situations more often than you think and their duty is limited to the least fatiguing rosters.
Nothing seems easy in Japan. Your initial training at Air Japan, wasn't it like 4-6 months in total? The students there in school have tutoring daily, with many finishing after sunset. What did impress me is their commitment to excellence in ANY job. Nothing seemed "below" them. They work as hard as possible to do the best they can.
I bet their medicals for over age 60 pilots aren't easy.
Bye Bye---General Lee