You don't know how much that saddens me being 12months further down the line with no prospect of ever retiring Looking at it another way, I suppose I'm lucky I have a job (though one could hardly call what I do a 'job')
I'll ask Alberto when I see him next but hadn't realised that he could be moving from being captain on 737s to being captain on Airbuses. He did say that the Airbus ticket covers 319, 320 and 321 with a shorter conversion required if they want him to go to the larger Airbuses.
As for retirement, I'm 51 and self-employed and given the state of my personal pension plan post dot-com bubble, bank crises and recession I think I'll be retiring at about the same time as Dave.
Spare a thought for Harry, he is currently a student AAC pilot, unless things have changed, that was the hardest rotary wing course in all three services.
Looking at it another way, I suppose I'm lucky I have a job (though one could hardly call what I do a 'job') 
