New Hire Captains within 5 years
08-23-2019, 06:28 AM
#151
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Joined APC: Mar 2015
Posts: 353
A 30yo who "averages" $250k throughout his career, puts away $5k/ mo, averages 6% on his investments, and retires at (cough) 65 will have $8.5 million as a parting gift. Provided you don't get divorced, furloughed, associate with a guy named Glenn, well, you get the picture.
08-23-2019, 10:29 AM
#154
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Joined APC: Jul 2011
Position: Reclining
Posts: 840
All I can say is that the decision on whether the retirement age stays at 65 or goes to 67 is above my pay grade. It’s a personal decision if someone punches out at 65 or stays til 67. Either way, it’s THEIR decision to make. As of now, I’d stay since I got here late in my career and would like to add to my B-fund. But no one else has the right to tell me to leave before whatever the mandatory retirement age is at the time. The fruits of my labor are actually mine, not yours.
08-23-2019, 10:59 AM
#155
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Joined APC: Apr 2010
Posts: 696
Having “enjoyed” 5 extra years grinding away in the regionals after age 65 kicked in (and plenty more pilots with 5 more right seat years at the majors) there are loads of us who will push hard to keep the senior citizens from sticking around for another 2 so you and I don’t get to have that specific choice.
08-23-2019, 11:16 AM
#156
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Position: The GF of FUPM
Posts: 3,073
Since this issue will be regulatory, I doubt that any of us will have anything at all to say about it unless the union chooses to address it head-on. And if that happens, I'd expect significant airline push back. I imagine they're going to need the relief.
08-23-2019, 11:46 AM
#157
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 705
They are going to need relief until 2040. Can meet foot.
08-23-2019, 02:29 PM
#158
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Joined APC: Jul 2014
Posts: 812
United better invest in a speaker company if age 67 passes. Old codgers are already "Going to speaker" and then sits there with the speaker reverberating through their bones loud enough to wake the dead and still misses the call. Those 1960's headsets don't work in a career where you are going to fly 30,000 hrs. That's double what pilots flew back then. A simple telex 850 should be standard.
08-23-2019, 02:49 PM
#159
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Posts: 39
United better invest in a speaker company if age 67 passes. Old codgers are already "Going to speaker" and then sits there with the speaker reverberating through their bones loud enough to wake the dead and still misses the call. Those 1960's headsets don't work in a career where you are going to fly 30,000 hrs. That's double what pilots flew back then. A simple telex 850 should be standard.
08-23-2019, 03:37 PM
#160
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Posts: 705
United better invest in a speaker company if age 67 passes. Old codgers are already "Going to speaker" and then sits there with the speaker reverberating through their bones loud enough to wake the dead and still misses the call. Those 1960's headsets don't work in a career where you are going to fly 30,000 hrs. That's double what pilots flew back then. A simple telex 850 should be standard.
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