European Court Sets Age 65 For Pilot Retirement

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) finds Lufthansa’s mandatory retirement age of 60 for pilots to be illegal. The court says that sending pilots into retirement at 60 constitutes discrimination on grounds of age. Lufthansa and its pilots union, Vereinigung Cockpit, say they will wait for the ruling...

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