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ALPA 
AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION 
55TH STREET 7 CICERO AVENUE 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 40438
PORTSMOUTH 7-1400

AFFILIATED WITH A.F.L.-C.I.O.
INT'L 

May 10, 1968

Captain Jack O. Bennett 
1 Berlin 33
Trabener Str. 68 a 
Germany 

Dear Captain Bennett:

This acknowledges receipt of a Xerox copy of page 1 of the May 1, 1968 Informformation Bulletin with reference to the Association's activity on the age 60 retirement rule and your recommendation that retirement planning should be negotiated that would enable retirement at age 55. 

The following is a quote from teh ALPA Policy Manual which is found on page 77 thereof, entitled "Fixed Retirement Age for Air Line Pilots":
"The Association strongly opposes any air line, government agency, or person orbitrarily setting a retirement age. A pilot of any age should be permitted to continue to perform the duties of an air lines pilot as long as he is able to meet the establised standards for a scheduled air line pilot. (Board 1950)"

You will note that it is our responsibility to pursue this from a policy standpoint. Further, I personally am opposed to the dictation of specific retirement ages, either by the legislative route or uni-lateral action on the part of government agencies. 

It is true, some pilots are very happy to retire at 60 and, unquestionably,some would prefer to retire at an earlier age. The Association, of course, has been in the process of improving retirement plans at almost every negotiation over these past many years and very substantial improviements have been smade in every quarter on this particular subject. 

I trust you can fully understand the reason for the Association's Board of Directors stand on such a matter and why the Home Office, and now the AGe 60 Committe, are in pursuit of this effort. 

Sincerely yours, 
AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION 
Charles H. Ruby, President 

CHR/vc
cc: Age 60 Committee 

"SCHEDULE WITH SAFETY"