Theywould also have hybridplans, with partof the traditionaldefined-benefitpensionreplaced by a defined-contributionplanof the sort common in the privatesector.
For pilots, it sponsors a defined-benefit pensionplan, a defined-contribution plan and gives access to a 401(k) that doesn't include any company match.
Union leaders said that they liked the look of the raise, but that what they really needed was a defined-benefit pensionplan, not the defined-contribution plan that management had offered them.