U.S. House passes aviation bill upping pilot retirement age to 67

The U.S. House of Representatives connected Thursday voted to walk authorities that would rise the mandatory commercialized aviator status property to 67 from 65 and marque different aviation reforms, with the Senate present acceptable to see its ain measure.

The ballot successful the Republican-led House was 351-69 to walk the measure that would reauthorize U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aviation information and infrastructure programs for the adjacent 5 years.

The Air Line Pilots Association has said hiking the status property could origin hose scheduling and aviator grooming issues and necessitate reopening aviator contracts. Current planetary rules would inactive forestall pilots older than 65 from flying successful astir countries extracurricular the United States.

The Regional Airline Association supports the aviator property hike, saying it "allows retention of much experienced captains, who tin successful crook alert alongside and mentor caller archetypal officers, helping to stabilize attrition."

The White House said this week it opposed a House measure proviso that would rescind a 2012 Transportation Department regularisation requiring airlines to advertise afloat fares including authorities fees and taxes. The House measurement besides did not see a proviso sought by President Joe Biden to compensate passengers for delays oregon acceptable minimum hose spot sizes.

The House measurement would barroom airlines from charging fees to let families to beryllium unneurotic connected flights. The House opted to clasp aviator grooming rules that were adopted aft a 2009 fatal rider airplane clang adjacent Buffalo. The measure did not see connection allowing further round-trip flights astatine Washington Reagan National Airport arsenic sought by Delta Air Lines.

Airlines for America, an manufacture commercialized group, praised the House transition and said it "underscores the request to prosecute much aerial postulation controllers to guarantee our airspace is adequately staffed."

The Democratic-led Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved backing for the FAA connected Thursday. That measurement would let the bureau to prosecute 1,800 further controllers adjacent year. The Senate Commerce Committee could instrumentality up the FAA reauthorization measure arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.

The Senate measure has been held up by a quality implicit whether to alteration aviator grooming requirements that were imposed aft the February 2009 clang of Colgan Air Flight 3407 adjacent Buffalo that killed 50 people, the past large U.S. rider hose fatal crash.