JAA Seeks to Revise Commercial Pilot Retirement Age to 65

Europe's Joint Aviation Authority (JAA), is seeking to make age 65 the standard retirement age for commercial pilots among its 29 member states. According to a JAA spokesman, France intends to apply for a "national variant" concerning the rule, in the hope of maintaining age 60 as the mandatory retirement age. Under the proposed JAR-FCL 1.060 rule, one pilot of a two-man crew may be as old as 65, provided the other is under 60.

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