1968 ALPA Resolution
May 28, 2003
Author: Chuck Jones

Vol. 19, No.19 May 8, 1968

ALPA CONTINUES OPPOSITION TO AGE 60 RETIREMENT—The Air Line Pilots Association strongly advocates that the Federal Air Regulation in its arbitrary age 60 retirement provisions is unreasonably discriminating against all of the airline pilots. When the FAA turned down ALPA’s petition which asked for an exemption to the age 60 retirement rule for a pilot, Captain M. Gitt, ALPA was aghast. The FAA’s denial is extremely unfair to a pilot’s rights…Shortening a pilots career with no realistic justification is cheating the public s well as the Industry.

As a result of the denial, the following resolution was adapted at the Executive Committee meeting held in Chicago the week of April 22, 1968.

“WHEREAS the FAA has rejected ALPA’s petition for exemption from Section 121.383 (c), the age sixty (60) provision of the FAR, filed on behalf of Captain M. Gitt and other pilots similarly situated, and

WHEREAS the FAA has taken this action in a swift and summary manner without any form of evidentiary hearing or examination of any facts or reasons advanced with the petition, and

WHEREAS the type of arbitrary action is repugnant to the traditional American sense of fair play, and

WHEREAS the lack of jurisprudence exhibited by the FAA in its rulings on the age question is highly contrary to the basic concepts of our democratic government,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Executive Committee of the Association expresses its extreme dissatisfaction with the manner in which the FAA has handled its action in this case, and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Association continue to support and process its age 60 program in accordance with the current program of the Special Age 60 Committee,”

ALPA has expended and continues to expend its utmost efforts in attempting to overcome this highly dissatisfying and unfair federal regulation.

(for a thought-provoking illustration that questions the age 60 rule, read in the upcoming June issue of The Airline Pilot, “Restoring Your Career’s Potential”, an interesting insight into ALPA’s position of the matter, warren by G.D. Goss, Vice-President, Region 1V and chairman of ALPA’s Age 60 Committee.)
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One United F/O at a National committee meeting in 1980 raised his United hand and carried a role call vote overpowering 3 airlines changing the position of ALPA on the age 60 rule. (that was told to me but I was not there)

Chuck Jones
AWA A320 Capt.

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