Legal Opinion
Jones v. Air Line Pilots Ass'n
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 25, 2010No. Civil Action 09-1075 (JDB)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
JOHN D. BATES, District Judge.
Before 2007, pilots who had toned sixty were prohibited from flying commercial airliners. In 2007, the Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act (“FTEPA” or “the Act”), Pub.L. No. 110-135, 121 Stat. 1450 (2007), raised the mandatory retirement age for commercial airline pilots to sixty-five. FTEPA operates prospectively, however, and allows pilots who turned sixty before its enactment to return to flying commercial airliners only under very limited circumstances. James Jones, a former Continental Airlines pilot, challenges as unconstitutional…
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