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Sailingfun said that this explanation was not correct. I respectfully disagree.
From my personal experience it's pretty much correct. We should have gotten our stock at around $12, that was the trade price at the time. We actually got personal control of it at $4.26. It was due to ALPA trying to sell it as a block. They got a little too cute for their own good.
From my personal experience it's pretty much correct. We should have gotten our stock at around $12, that was the trade price at the time. We actually got personal control of it at $4.26. It was due to ALPA trying to sell it as a block. They got a little too cute for their own good.
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They sold it at 21 a share!!!! There was a very small percentage of stock held back from the first sale because of law suits from some pilots over the distribution method. It was sold for less but was I think 5 percent of the total. There was really no option but to hold that small portion of the stock back. By the time the lawsuits were settled the stock had in fact dropped a lot in value.
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They sold it at 21 a share!!!! There was a very small percentage of stock held back from the first sale because of law suits from some pilots over the distribution method. It was sold for less but was I think 5 percent of the total. There was really no option but to hold that small portion of the stock back. By the time the lawsuits were settled the stock had in fact dropped a lot in value.
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$165,000 of my note/claim money (about $400,000 total) went directly to the IRS, remember? There was no way to roll it over to an IRA/401K at the time so it was all considered taxable income, which put most of us into the highest tax bracket. Uncle Sam was the only one who made out, as usual.
This all happened about the same time my twins were starting college at an out of state university, that's where most of the rest of it went.
This all happened about the same time my twins were starting college at an out of state university, that's where most of the rest of it went.
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Timbo, I am not sure why your note/claim ended up less then mine since I was junior to you. I think perhaps you are forgetting that there were several payouts and that DALPA managed over a 3 year period to shelter about 140 thousand or so in our retirement accounts. In addition you then had the option to roll it to a ROTH IRA or recover the tax via a conventional IRA. If you pulled the money out of the retirement account you paid a huge penalty. I also had two kids going to college during that period.
If you recall, there were "Three Silo's" which combined to give you your total payout.
Age, years of service, and...I forget the third, Equipment/pay rate at the time perhaps?
A guy in my new hire class who was 6mo. older than me got about 60,000 more than me, so on a per year basis, I'm guessing 120,000/yr. for age?
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Timbo, I am not sure why your note/claim ended up less then mine since I was junior to you. I think perhaps you are forgetting that there were several payouts and that DALPA managed over a 3 year period to shelter about 140 thousand or so in our retirement accounts. In addition you then had the option to roll it to a ROTH IRA or recover the tax via a conventional IRA. If you pulled the money out of the retirement account you paid a huge penalty. I also had two kids going to college during that period.
There were guys in my training class that received three times more than I did because they were older. We were punished because a time value of money assumption was integrated into the silos.
It was age discrimination and it did not factor exposure to market risk into the equation.
This is part of the angst of the deadzoner. Lots of time vested in the retirement plan and a smaller payout due to age.
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Everything in that paragraph is pretty close to correct. The stock IPO was about $21 per share. Someone hired by DALPA had control of the shares as a block and not a single share was sold until distributed to the pilots at a much lower price. I do believe there was a restriction on selling the shares. NOT one share was sold prior to distribution.
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91 percent of the pilots elected to sell via the claim. Those pilots never received any shares. If you got shares then you were part of the 9 percent who elected to receive stock. The claim was sold for just under 1.2 billion dollars. That was if I recall 5 percent of the company. It was the equivalent to about 21 a share.
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Remember, we are talking about two different distributions. It's difficult not to talk past one another on the forum.
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I'll agree with Sailing on this one. You did receive a portion of the money as taxable income, but you could have recovered that due to the ALPA supported Congressional action. You are blaming ALPA/DAL because you didn't save for your children's higher education? Also my PBGC payout is about $3900 if I retire at 60, and a little north of $6400 if I retire at 65. You and I are very close in age, but you were hired at a much younger age. I was 31 when hired, I believe you were around 26-27? Your PBGC payout should be more than mine. Also some of that payout we receiver went to fill the 415c limit, so not all the note/claim money was taxable. Timbo, I like you, but you can't BS a BSer.
If you recall, the MEC (made up of a lot of junior F/O's at the time) also decided to "Make them whole" when it came to the silo distributions, by saying every one here had an "FAE" of $240,000.
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