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Q. Did he say why you could not be employed?

A. Well, he said there was no job for me at the salary I would expect, and he said that Eastern was having a curtailment, was not making any money and said that as a result, they were not going to do any more hiring in 1969 and possibly, in 1970. Also, he did say that the only hiring they had done was a couple of people replaced in the schedule department and he was sure I would not want that job. 

Q. Did you ever make any demand for compensation, what level you wanted to be hired at and what pay you expected?

A. No, but I did expect if I got a flying job to be compensated at the normal rates.

Mr. Bailey: Would Eastern like to stipulate that it has not been making any money recently?

Mr. Harlan: No. (T. 156 and 157).

Since reaching age sixty, complainant testified that he had not, in his opinion, diminished in any way, in his qualifications to serve as a pilot, and has a current first-class medical certificate, dated March, 1969. (T. 158). He was qualified and had performed ferry flights and test flights for Eastern Airlines while he was a regular test pilot. (T. 158).

In their brief, Respondent points out, for what it is worth, that Captain Gitt did not protest to the A.L.P.A. when they enacted the provision of the collective bargaining agreement, which required that a pilot had to be on the active seniority list in order to fly as an instructor, supervisor, check, test or ferry pilot. However, Captain Gitt explained in his testimony that this clause was already in the contract when he first came to work for Eastern in 1956, and was Eastern's policy before that (T. 162), and that was because of this fact he considered that it would be somewhat improper for him to have then contested