MONTREAL -- Air Canada is seeking finance ministry approval to form its own life insurance company as a gateway to the annuities market and a hedge against looming pension payouts.
A spokesperson says the airline aims to shore up pension risks by buying annuities from Canadian insurers and reinsuring the fixed payments through an insurance subsidiary.
The Montreal-based carrier plans to purchase the annuities over several years, starting in 2019.
The country's largest airline currently doles out $725 million in annual pension payouts. That number is projected to grow to more than $900 million in a decade.
Air Canada says the national market is too small to bear such big annuities purchases.
The airline's defined benefit pension plans cover nearly 53,000 employees -- roughly half of whom are retired -- and carry a solvency surplus of $2.6 billion.
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