BA pension deficit increases but shareholders can receive dividends
11
Jun
BA pension holders were let down again today as trustees of the pension scheme allowed BA to restore dividends to its shareholders despite the BA pension deficit increasing.
It seems to me that deficits are now just being accepted as the normal. If allowed to pay dividends with their massive deficits still in place what incentive is there for companies like BA to re-float their pension schemes.
British Airways announced an agreement with the trustees of its large pension schemes that should lift a restriction on the airline paying a dividend.
The dividend bar was put in place in 2010, when the deficit in British Airways’ two defined benefit pension schemes was put at £3.2bn, and the airline committed to payments to fix this.
In the latest actuarial valuation of the schemes announced on Tuesday, the deficit was estimated at £3.3bn. British Airways said it would make annual payments of £360m over a 10 to 13 year period to the pension schemes, partly to fix the deficit.
With payments as low as this agreed there is little or no chance in my opinion of BA catching up on its pension deficit.
Early this year I said a big pension scheme will fall
Nigel Green deVere group
Blog written 11th June
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Wow. With this reckless attitude it is only a matter of time before such a scheme seizes to exist, which would of course result in millions of people facing a very miserable retirement
How can any business be willing to live with negativity?debt has made more people bust than anything else.
Buffett believes no debt, I totally agree.
Tony
It seems only a matter of time before the BA Pension Schemes follow the BMI Pension Scheme into the Pension Protection Fund.
Massive cuts in benefits for the scheme members who have worked hard and saved for their retirements, only to see their financial futures in tatters.