And who said anything about going to the company hat in hand begging them to trash our A Fund?

If I were king of the world the next contract would have a provision in it to stay with current A Plan or go with some sort of modified Defined Contribution plan. It would be the pilots choice. It would also be in the companies interest to make sure the DC plan was fairly equal to the A Plan so more pilots would start to chose it. As a geezer I would probably stick to the A plan, however if I had 20 or 30 years to go I would probably go for the security of having an account with my name on it.

I used to have the statistics on % of Non Governemnt US workers with pension plans in 1980, 1990 and 2000. I'll look for it.