Originally Posted by
OpenClimb
I’ve checked and I can buy my high deductible plan on the open market for about $50 to $70 more than what’s coming out of my check from Frontier. I’m single and have the high deductible plan combined with an HSA. Frontier also contributes somewhere around $50 per month to my HSA, so you’d really have to add that in to make an accurate comparison. For me, it’d cost me $125-ish more per month in the open market.
I don’t know what the high deductible plan costs a pilot for a family—again, net of the company’s HSA contribution, but my brother is self-employed and pays roughly $900/month for his family of 4.
The problem is, what is coming out of your paycheck at F9 is WAY more than other airlines for crummy insurance. Legacy pilots are only paying 20% of their premiums, other majors 20-25%. Regionals 30%ish. From an insurance perspective my former regional was cheaper. Our cost is close to free market cost because we pay sooo much. A family low deductible free market plan is going to cost a lot more than 900 on the free market.
I honestly don’t know why we are are talking about this, we work for a billion dollar company that just got a huge tax benefit. Their revenues will just keep growing each year. We should have good insurance options.....very reasonable insurance options.