The U.S. congress & senate unanimously voted to raise the pilot retirement age from 60 to 65 earlier last week, and President Bush just signed it into law.
Here's the Chicago Tribune article:
Pilot Retirement Age - Raised to 65
The last 6 years has been rather difficult - 30% pay cut, negative growth, and now my Captain upgrade has been extended another 5 years. I feel like complaining about all this, but it won't do any good. My career has been OK. Grandpa had it great after upgrading in 1 year, and flying in the glory days of aviation. Dad had it not so good (although he loved it)... he had multiple furloughs & worked for a bunch of different airlines.
I've been mulling over the idea of changing airplanes to the B-777. It's been almost 13 years on the MD-80, and a change would be good. Annie likes the idea, so 2008 might be the year for it - we'll see.
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