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And suppose he lasts until the end of 1958.
What then?

He'd still get the $200 per month.

Does a pilot always get $200 per month when he retires?

No, the $200 is a minimum figure for a pilot who sticks with air line flying until he has to retire or reaches 60 and retires because he wants to. This last, of course, is mostly theoretical. But if a pilot does fly on an air line until he is sixty he could earn a retirement annuity at sixty with, say, 38 or 40 years credit of $380 or $400 per month.

The A.L.P.A. plan fixes a rate of annuity for each year of service. That rate is one per cent of your pay plus $1 for each of service after the plan starts. If, in 1949, you average