House Committee Approves Raising Pilot Retirement Age to Address Shortage.
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure has voted to raise the mandatory retirement age for commercial airline pilots from 65 to 67 as the industry faces a persistent shortage of aviators. The proposed FAA reauthorization bill now faces a vote in the full House, but it isn't clear whether the new retirement age provision would be in a final version of the bill or make it through a vote in either chamber. The Air Line Pilots Association, the country's biggest pilot labor union, has opposed the measure.