Regulations and Government
Airline pilots bring age-60 fight to court
Three pilots for US Airways have filed a lawsuit in the U.S.

Three pilots for US Airways have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to force the FAA to immediately grant them exemptions from the mandatory retirement age of 60.

They demand that FAA Administrator Marion Blakey overturn the “age-60 rule” that was imposed in 1959, and they asked the federal court to direct her “to issue a decision on each respondent’s pending request for an exemption from a regulation forbidding him from flying as a pilot for his employer after his sixtieth birthday.”

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