Commercial pilot retirement age raised to 67 by U.S. House panel vote.
The U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has narrowly voted to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age to 67 from 65, as part of a proposed five-year bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aviation safety and infrastructure programs. The proposal faces opposition from unions and an uncertain fate by a U.S. Senate committee, which will consider its version of the FAA measure on Thursday and does not currently include the pilot age hike. The Regional Airline Association (RAA) praised the pilot age hike, noting 324 airports have lost, on average, a third of their air service with more than 400 airplanes parked due to a lack of pilots.