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There is a bill in congress right now that is due for a vote next year increasing the retirement age to 75.

Where did you hear that?
 
My thoughts? You and your roomate have to much time on your hands.
 
"Two" roommates have "too" much time "to" debate.
 
Not a chance.

History has proven that. Management has, historically speaking, always worked since deregulation to dumb down pilot expectations of the career, minimalize our jobs and the importance we play to the operation as a whole, and to equalize all employees, from baggage handlers and gate agents to mechanics and pilots, so everyone is taught that they can all pretty much expect to make the same money.

What you'll see, if it gets hard to staff the airlines, is a big push for a MPL or an opening of restrictions on foreign pilots. Why? That's easy.

It takes time to spool up the training pipeline for pilots who are experienced enough to fly for the airlines. Simply increasing the compensation package will get more new pilots interested in the career, but it will take 3-5 years for those pilots to reach just the regionals.

So as the majors lose pilots, there will be plenty of regionals and freight companies to supply the majors. That means the majors won't feel the tightening of supply like the regionals and freighters will. It's THOSE companies that might see a compensation increase, but they would be simultaneously screaming for that MPL or foreign pilot staffing relief.

That fight is definitely coming, just a matter of time... Don't look for staffing problems to solve our collective a$$es in this career. The only thing that's doing that is for each and every Airline Pilot to make the improvement of our careers their personal responsibility, and not just rely on "their MEC" to do all the heavy lifting for them.

Absolutely-

Mexican pilots will be flying here within the next decade.. Once that camel gets its nose in the tent you had better have a good backup plan!
 

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