Young Only! Old Need Not Read!

[luckytohaveajob]

What are the young doing to fight these old bsturds?

I for one have written by Congressman and Senator, Called my Congressman and Senator, Faxed my Congressman and Senator, written an editorial that has been published in my hometown newspaper in one of the states at the center of this controversy.

What are the other young pilots <45 doing?

This is serious business for our careers. It is not only the next five years of retirements that will be delayed but all the last five years of retirements prior to implementation of this outrageously wrong law.

Delta ALPA is hiring it's early retired pilots back with a lottery system and keeping them in their previous equipment and status bidding on the bottom of the seniority list. Who cares if they are on the bottom still flying B767 Captain international positions?!

The precedents have already been established and your company too-- INCLUDING SWA will hire the retired pilots back and keep them in their CAPTAIN seats and positions.

Young pilots must keep this from happening!

I suggest you write and call everyone you know. And write and call all your senators and congressman.

I also suggest you write editorials and call your news stations. You must use the publics fear to make your points. The public is clueless and after listening to an NPR interview with the SWA union president Sept. 2005 it is clear the SWA union president is using the publics misconceptions to make his points. NOTHING AGAINST SWA PILOTS BUT CALL HIM UP AND MAKE YOUR CASE BE HEARD THAT 60 is IT!!!

1) Site NTSB incapacitation cases
2) Site the S.65 provision that the NTSB testing will be conducted two years after the fact
3) Use the publics fear of pilots dieing at the controls.
4) Site personal examples not using your airlines name about how you have seen pilots wear three pairs of glasses, not want to land at night, and sight age related issues you have first hand observed

Take it to the public!!! And lets boot these old bsturds out.

Also old bsturds need not post here-- flame everyone that does!!

 

[semperfido]

The presidents have already been established and your company too--!!

get a spell checker you retard

 

[Junkflyer]

I'm 42 and going to call my Senator. I'll need a job after 60 since my company gives me $h't towards my retirement.You youngster will find yourself in the same boat in 20 years after multiple furloughs and no pension plan.

 

[luckytohaveajob]

Additional info

Also site the Harvey Watt statistic that 35% of all pilots currently covered today by LTD medical out prior to age 60 retirement.

And to the above retard critical of my spelling screw you dck head. You are probably some old bsturd! Some of my misspelling is on purpose. And also, I don't have to spell to fly my B777 dumb a$$!

The point is lets get the young mobilized and working to defeat this!!

 

[Phaedrus]

Bad spellers of the world.....UNTIE!

 

[Pile-it]

I'm younger than 40 and I'd like to see it change. I think it is inevitable that this rule will change sometime in the next 20 years. Other countries have changed the age, and they don't have pilots dropping dead at the controls. I was told Australia has gone to no age limit, just an astronaut type physical after something like age 58. I doubt we'll see that here, but that's what I'm for. I'd like to leave on my terms, or when I'm not fit enough for the job, not when the government tells me I need to leave.

 

[bafanguy]

What are the young doing to fight these old bsturds?

I for one have written by Congressman, Senator, Called my Congressman and Senator, Faxed by Congressman and Senator and written an editorial that has been published in my hometown newspaper that is at the center of this controversy.

What are the other young pilots <45 doing?

This is serious business for our careers. It is not only the next five years of retirements that will be delayed but all the last five years of retirements prior to implementation of this outrageously wrong law.

Delta ALPA is hiring it early retired pilots back with a lottery system and keeping them in their previous equipment and status bidding on the bottom of the senior list. Who cares if they are on the bottom still flying B767 Captain internation flying?!

The presidents have already been established and your company too-- INCLUDING SWA will hire the retired pilot back and keep him or her in their CAPTAIN seats and positions.

Young pilots must keep this from happening!

I suggest you write and call everyone you know. And write and call all your senators and congressman.

I also suggest you write editorials and call your news stations. You must use the publics fear to make your points. The public is clueless and after listening to an NPR interview with the SWA union president Sept. 25, 2005 it is clear they the SWA union president is using the public misconceptions to make his points. NOTHING AGAINST SWA PILOTS BUT CALL HIM UP AND MAKE YOUR CASE BE HEARD THAT 60 is IT!!!

1) Site NTSB incapcitation cases
2) Use the S.65 provision that the NTSB testing will be conducted two years after the fact
3) Use the publics fear of pilots dieing at the controls.
4) Site personal examples not using your airlines name about how you have seen pilot wear three pairs of glasses, not want to land at night, and sight age related problems

Take it to the public!!! And lets boot these old bsturds out.

Also old bsturds need not post here-- flame everyone that does!!

Good Lord, Kid !! Relax, the sky's not falling...

If you're not careful, you'll have a blood pressure like an "old bsturd" and become one of the 35% you're talking about.

 

[semperfido]

. And also, I don't have to spell to fly my B777 dumb a$$!

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i thought you said you were the FO

 

[FL000]

I'm nearly 40 and I'm supporting the change. You think you'll never be 61, or are you just waiting 'til you're in your late 40s to support it?

 

[Falconjet]

I'm 45 and I will never support any increase in the retirement age.

FJ