WESTERN BUREAU:
THE CARIBBEAN Airline Pilots' Association (CALPA) has welcomed the United Kingdom-based International Civil Aviation Authority's (ICAA) recent approval of a new retirement age for airline pilots.
Captain George de Cabral, chairman of the association, says the extension of the retirement age from 60 to 65 years, which takes effect on November 23 this year, has been widely supported by pilots and their respective countries across the region. However, while the retirement age has been adjusted, it remains an option for countries to implement.
COUNTRIES CAN REGULATE
"Although they have implemented this new age limit, individual countries can still regulate their own age limit. They (the ICAA) can't necessarily force a country to go to 65 years," Captain de Cabral said. "ICAA members across the Caribbean have signed on to this (so) I do not foresee a problem with it when the time comes."
Captain de Cabral was speaking at the association's 13th Annual General Meeting at the Rose Hall Resort and Country Club in Montego Bay, St. James yesterday.
