Global Airlines Wan Make Pilot Retire For 67 Years

The biggest airlines for world dey beg United Nations aviation oga make dem raise the retirement age for commercial pilots from 65 go 67, because pilot no plenty for the world. The plan wey International Air Transport Association (IATA) carry come, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) go look am for their big meeting wey go start September 23. IATA, wey dey represent about 350 airlines, talk say to add two years to the retirement age na careful but correct step wey no go affect safety. International law no allow pilot wey don pass 65 to fly international flight, and many countries, including America, dey use the same rule for inside their own country.

The IATA plan still talk say two pilots must dey inside cockpit, and one of dem must be under 65 if the other one don pass that age. This talk don show again almost twenty years after ICAO raise the retirement age from 60 to 65 for 2006. As people dey travel well again after pandemic, airlines dey warn say if pilots wey sabi their work no plenty, e fit cause wahala for flight operations worldwide. But the plan no easy as some groups especially pilot unions for America no gree. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) wey represent American Airlines pilots talk say dem no get enough study on how e fit affect health and safety, so dem no like the idea. “We no dey play with safety like that”,  APA spokesperson and pilot Dennis Tajer talk as other big pilot unions like Air Line Pilots Association and Southwest Airlines Pilots Association still no gree make dem raise the retirement age. For 2023, US pilot unions block similar plan before, even though many airlines support am well.

Last month, some US lawmakers from different party talk to President Donald Trump government make dem support international plan to raise retirement age, showing say politics dey enter the matter well well. If dem agree, the ICAO plan fit change how airlines worldwide dey arrange their pilots, give small help to airlines wey dey find pilots hard, but e go still bring back questions about safety and how old pilots suppose be before dem stop work.