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23 years old

What is the minimum age to hold an Airline Transport Pilot certificate in the US?

This is several years older than the minimum age needed for a private pilot license.

Source: Wikipedia - Airline transport pilot license (2013) en.wikipedia.org

65 years old

What is the mandatory retirement age for US commercial airline pilots?

Congress raised the retirement age from 60 to 65 in 2007.

Source: Wikipedia - Airline pilot (2007) en.wikipedia.org

164,193 pilots

Of those, about how many US pilots in 2020 held the Airline Transport license needed to captain an airliner?

That's a much smaller share of all US certificate holders — most pilots never fly for an airline.

Source: Wikipedia - Airline pilot (2020) en.wikipedia.org

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