Originally Posted by Adlerdriver

Maybe I'm missing something, so I'm open to being corrected. But most guys that are at or approaching retirement age at FedEx have been here a while. If we discount the later in life arrivals from the military (since they have a mil pension and health care), a lot of pilots heading out the door in the next decade have had many good years as a WB Captain. Quite a few have been WB Captains since the early 2000s. So, my sympathy meter for wasting negotiating collateral on lowering the cost of their health care until medicare kicks in is ZERO!!

It's not like this is a surprise. PLAN your retirement. You've got millions in your B-fund. You're going to be making close to $130K per year in today's dollars, which is substantial still. Someone making WB Captain pay for over a decade has no excuse for being unprepared for retirement health care costs. If you have been an idiot financially and spent all your money like a drunken sailor or funding multiple divorces, then work until the bitter end. I could care less. You'll die sooner and stop tapping Uncle Sugar's medicare fund. Tell me your sob story over a beer and I'll listen sympathetically while scoffing on the inside. If you can't bridge the cost of health care between retirement and 65 with the money this job provided you, then you don't deserve any extra consideration in our next round of negotiations. You'd probably just screw that up too.