Airline Financial Troubles and Pension Benefits

Atrios writes this:

Goodbye Pensions: US Airways asks to skip pension payment Reason number 8 million why we need Social Security…

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Many of the U.S. airlines are struggling financially with massive debt and very little equity and we noted here on the Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation may be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Yet another tax increase on our grandchildren.