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I just heard we have around 80 guys over the age of 70. Half of them out on medical-disability
 
I have been watching the age 65 v 70 thing for a while. One consideration not mentioned on many boards is the fear by the company of disability claims. If you don't have a mandatory retirement age, and a pilot loses his medical, is he retired or is he disabled? If he is disabled when do his disability payments stop if there is no mandatory retirement age?

You'd think this would be one area where management would be happy to work with a union on CBA language that takes care of this issue.

If the disability is reasonably career ending or age related and the pilot is over 65 then a maximum six month transition takes place etc... you can graduate it based on age scales.

The beauty of a CBA in this case is it trumps all NDA and age discriminations laws. Pilots aren't the only ones who can benefit from a CBA.

If management was actually willing to work with their pilot's unions imagine the competitive advantage that would bring!
 

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