Originally Posted by CincoDeMayo

PMA contributions should be tiered on age, as life insurance is. A 25 year pilot should not pay the same rate as a 60 year old pilot, for obvious reasons. The system now has 25 year old pilots supplementing the 60 year old pilots PMA payments, and it’s failing because we have a lot of older pilots working the system.

Now they want or raise the premiums; watch it collapse like a house of cards when younger pilots stop contributing. IMO, their solution to solve the shortfall was the wrong one and will only exacerbate the shortfall.