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The Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolis ruled against pilots and other employees of Mesaba Airlines, which operates as a Northwest Airlink partner. Mesaba has been in bankruptcy since Oct. 13, 2005. A week ago, on Friday, February 3, management filed an 1113 (c) motion seeking authorization to reject its contracts with pilots, flight attendants, and mechanics and impose 19.4 percent total labor cost reductions from its pilots, including a 60 percent increase in health insurance premiums. Together these two proposals alone would undercut wages and benefit standards at other comparable airlines. Pilot pay currently starts at $21,000 per year. The cuts that Mesaba proposed are drastic -- in 2012, a starting pilot who elects family health insurance will gross just $10,700 annually.