ALPA Urges President Bush to Sign Age 65 into Law

U.S. Newswire, December, 2007

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: CONTACTS: Pete Janhunen, Linda Shotwell, or Molly Martin of ALPA, 1-703-481-4440, media@alpa.org

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Capt. John Prater, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Intl (ALPA), issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill to raise the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots to 65. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the same language, H.R. 4343, on December 11.

ALPA has worked very hard to ensure that its Executive Boards recommendations, intended to protect the piloting profession in the face of a change that was certain to come, were included in any age- change legislation.

I am pleased to report to our members that this legislation...

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