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Old 02-06-2012 | 07:25 PM
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From: Douglas Aerospace post production Flight Test & Work Around Engineering bulletin dissembler
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Originally Posted by slowplay
I guess I don't understand your question. Health care is just another expense to Delta. They pay hundreds of millions per year toward employee health care in addition to the amounts employees pay (premiums and deductibles). There is no profit motive as it is an expense.
I assumed they lost money on the FA's and other employee groups, but held out hope that pilots, with our incentives to remain healthy, might be a better group to insure.

Any insight on how the pilots fare as an underwriting pool?