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Boeing Aviator
DAL LTD is 100% paid for by the company. That’s why it’s taxable. Ours is a 80/20 or 70/30
split using post tax dollars that’s why our benefit is tax free.
What’s it worth to protect our pilots from the catastrophic career ending (or for an extended period of time) LTD? It wouldn’t go up that much, plus we could negotiate a bigger portion to be paid by the company.
FYI - both Spirit and JetBlue have the pilot option to purchase individually up to 15K per month. I’d be open to the pilot option to pay extra because it’s worth alot for me.
DAL could make the 100% company paid Ltd a taxable benefit. Making the benefit tax free upon receiving it. At f9 we can do this annually during open enrollment. It’s a pretty nice provision. You decide if the 100% company paid benefit is taxable or not.
The option to buy up is nice. Let’s those that want it buy up while keeping premiums down (for those making it taxable).