FAA unlikely to raise age 65

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07-25-2022, 08:13 AM

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Legislation introduced

Senator Lindsey Graham just introduced legislation to expand it to 67:

https://www.wistv.com/2022/07/25/wat...nt-age-pilots/

07-25-2022, 08:21 AM

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ALPA and the Biden Administration (via Buttigieg) have come out against raising the mandatory retirement age.

07-25-2022, 08:29 AM

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Mr. Rogers can introduce all the bills he wants in his endless quest for media attention. They'll never make it out of committee, much less get approved by the House. DOA.

07-25-2022, 08:48 AM

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Are the airlines even asking for this?

07-25-2022, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by tom11011

Are the airlines even asking for this?

i think the regionals are, legacies most likely don’t want this at all.

07-25-2022, 09:45 AM

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Originally Posted by SonicFlyer

Senator Lindsey Graham just introduced legislation to expand it to 67:

https://www.wistv.com/2022/07/25/wat...nt-age-pilots/

I’m genuinely curious as to which lobbying agents instructed LG to do this.

(In the grand scheme of American politics, it’s a tempest in a teapot. Extremely niche issue. Now it’s an actual proposed piece of legislation. Somebody is pushing/paying for this move)

07-25-2022, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux

SWAPA and RAA most likely.

07-25-2022, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux

The RAA is. Probably HUGE dollars. Have you seen the raises they've given to AA WO to recruit pilots? They need a labor reset so they can go back to paying D scale wages. There's no coincidence that the 3 carriers that gave the biggest raises do a ton of flying into his state.

07-25-2022, 10:16 AM

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SWAPA in late May 2022:

"Yesterday, a strong majority of the SWAPA membership voted by a margin of 3-2 against support for any changes to the current FAA mandatory retirement age of 65. There was extraordinary interest on this issue with more than 7,200 responses. The result of the poll supports SWAPA’s current National Airline Policy(NAP), which is approved by your Board of Directors annually. Based on our Pilots’ direction, SWAPA will not support any change to the mandatory retirement age."

07-25-2022, 10:20 AM

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Originally Posted by nene

Agreed, quite a few unhealthy (and some healthy) were wiped out early by the pandemic. Hazard to guess if you made it to federal politician age now, your probably good to go till at least mid 80's.....

I mean, plenty of those are older than that already.