If you die before you retire your spouse is automatically eligible to receive 50% of your AA pension when you would have become eligible had you not met your untimely demise. You can request that your Qualified Pre-Retirement Suvivor Annuity (QRSA) for your surviving spouse to receive 100% of what you would have received in pension benefits -- had you not kicked the bucket -- with negligible changes to your pension benefits.

Do you have QRSA? Follow the steps below to find out and if not, you can find the form to request the change here

Sign in to Jetnet>>>

Benefits Page>>>

(Left Side) Click> Benefits Service Center>>>

Click My Pension>>>

Estimate Your Pension>>>

View my Plan Specific Data>>>

Scroll down and look for...

A 'Yes' after Enhanced Pre-Retirement Survivor Annuity Election

The name of your Spouse as beneficiary

...and percentage due for your QRSP -- look for (100%)

If you don't see the information above listed in Jetnet then you can excpect AA to keep half of your due pension while your eternal soul wanders some other worldly celestial plane as your surviving spouse remains on earth.