AIRLINE pilots must retire at age 60 (an arbitrary law). There are some thing that must be done. Regardless of how hard it was on the nation, President Regean did the right thing by firing them. They were given a warning. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 19:00 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Strike by air traffic controllers looms, threatens airport operations > In a message dated 6/6/2003 6:34:10 PM Pacific Daylight Time, B787300@xxxxxxx > writes: > > << Don't they have a 20-year retirement plan? >> > > They can retire in 20, but that is the early retirement age when the full > pension kicks in. They can keep working until 50, like pilots. Then, if they > wish, they can try to work in a contract tower while collecting pension. > Say someone who was 28 at the time had kept on until now. They would > just be retiring. Demand for the job would have kept up with the supply of jobs, > instead of having the rush that came in after PATCO comming close to > retirement age and not enough people interested in the job, or not willing to do the > college courses along with the regular training. >