New age limit
08-11-2006, 12:40 PM
#4
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2005
Position: FredEx Captain-Retired
Posts: 408
Osama,
You got to stop spending so much time in your cave, pard.
The Congress has been talking about it, ALPA is all over it . .and all the self-indulgent, snot-nosed young airline F/O's are catatonic that some old guys who have worked for 3 defunct airlines and haven't been 'vested' in a retirement plan yet, might like to work an 'extra' 4-5 years, like their 'normal' high school and college buddies, to insure a half-way decent retirement.
08-11-2006, 01:32 PM
#5
With The Resistance
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Burning the Agitprop of the Apparat
Posts: 6,191
Some of those "snot-nosed FOs" are pushing 50+ years, but that really doesn't matter.
What does matter is not what you or I or the Unions think, but what the airlines and their handmaiden, the FAA, decide is the cheapest way to go.
I can perfectly understand the "pull the ladder up, I've got mine" attitude and I am neutral on the issue. But then again, I could walk away right now and live happily ever after from a money standpoint. Some guys are really wanting this to change and there are good arguments on both sides, but ultimately it boils down to money and the supply of available pilots to those actually making the decision.
What does matter is not what you or I or the Unions think, but what the airlines and their handmaiden, the FAA, decide is the cheapest way to go.
I can perfectly understand the "pull the ladder up, I've got mine" attitude and I am neutral on the issue. But then again, I could walk away right now and live happily ever after from a money standpoint. Some guys are really wanting this to change and there are good arguments on both sides, but ultimately it boils down to money and the supply of available pilots to those actually making the decision.
08-11-2006, 02:19 PM
#6
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2005
Position: FredEx Captain-Retired
Posts: 408
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