Originally Posted by
Andy
United pilot here. Huge congrats on your new contract. The company ran you guys through the ringer with underhanded tactics but it looks like you got a great new contract. No contract’s perfect but yours made one helluvan improvement over your old one. And you’ve now made it easier for every other pilot union to get a better contract based on your gains.
One last point: your LTD sounds like it’s industry leading and all the rest of us at other airlines will now be negotiating for a match/leapfrog of the great advance you guys made.
Again, congratulations.
Thanks. The LTD was a big item we had to get after getting iced in September. It is very good. I do believe Delta makes the DC 16% retirement contribution on the disabled pilots LTD earnings. I haven’t gotten confirmation on that but it is a big deal if so.
It has been said that ours will be offset by outside income like another job but the information at the roadshow wasn’t clear on specifics (my earnings or joint earnings with a spouse etc). We also get company medical at active rates for 5 years
Anyhow it was a big jump from what we had which was own occupation for only two years. This goes til 65.
It’s 60% of the last years W2 with a max of $15k/mo. First $5k is taxable and whatever you qualify for over that you pay a nominal premium after tax for and the benefit is tax free.