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Employer health plan record · Plan year 2024 · Form 5500

American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits

Transportation — truck & rail · Fort Worth, Texas · EIN ending 2798

Updated Filing received by DOL

American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits, a transportation — truck & rail employer in Fort Worth, Texas, reported 113,782 participants in its health and welfare plans for plan year 2024. Its Form 5500 shows $60M in insurance premiums across 27 contracts and $708,083 in broker commissions and fees. The plan is self-funded (the employer pays claims itself). The Department of Labor received the filing on October 13, 2025, within the extension window.

Participants
113,782
+5.7% vs 2023
Premiums filed
$60M
+29.9% vs 2023
Broker commissions + fees
$708,083
+8.0% vs 2023
Commission rate
n/a
needs insured medical premium

Who was paid on American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits's plan

Schedule A, Part I lists each broker or agent paid on each insurance contract and the amount. Totals below add every contract American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits filed for 2024.

Broker or agentCommissionsFeesTotalContracts
Strategic Non Medical Solutions LLC · Atlanta, GA$105,195$405,333$510,52817
Aon · Chicago, IL$167,108$111$167,2191
American Benefits and Compensation · New York, NY$26,453$0$26,4531

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, Part I (broker commissions and fees), plan year 2024, as published in EBSA's 2024 "Latest" dataset. Part I names whoever the carrier paid, which can be a firm or an individual agent; both are public record. Amounts exclude pay from carriers not tied to a listed contract.

Insurance contracts and carriers

The 24 largest of 27 contracts reported on Schedule A: carrier, what it covers, people covered at year end, earned premium, and broker compensation.

Carrier · coverageCoveredPremiumBroker payRate
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companylife, short-term disability98,359$39M$69,8290.2%
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companycoverage not coded6,745$7.6M$167,2192.2%
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companylife26,880$6.4M$11,6250.2%
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companylife6,355$4.2M$7,7420.2%
Triple S Salud IncHMO339$3.1M——
Unum Life Insurance Company of Americacoverage not coded5$248,519$26,45310.6%
Community CareHMO1,639———
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded100,166—$473—
Fidelity Security Life Insurance Companyvision158,963———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan IncHMO99———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States IncHMO297———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan IncHMO997———
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan IncHMO1,867———
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companylife92,582—$243,090—
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companyshort-term disability12,487—$69,346—
Metropolitan Life Insurance Companyshort-term disability7,414———
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded——$15—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded55,563—$41,142—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded12,119—$15—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded39,712—$15—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded54,317—$15—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded36,643—$107—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded18,266—$28,729—
Life Insurance Company of North Americacoverage not coded33,706—$41,267—

Source: DOL Form 5500 Schedule A, plan year 2024. Self-funded medical coverage has no premium; amounts shown for it are stop-loss or administrative contracts.

How American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits compares

Medians across employers for plan year 2024, the most recent complete year. Commission rates use fully insured medical contracts only; dollar medians use every employer that disclosed broker pay.

Broker commissions + fees, dollars
American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits
$708,083
Commission rate, % of medical premium

Not computable: no insured medical premium on the filing.

Source: BenefitsLedger benchmarks from 58,547 employer health plans with 100 or more participants, plan year 2024. Methodology.

Year over year

$46M$60MPremiums$655,688$708,083Broker pay20232024
American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits: premiums and broker commissions + fees, 2023 vs 2024
20232024Change
Participants107,652113,782+5.7%
Premiums filed$46,486,849$60,391,794+29.9%
Broker commissions + fees$655,688$708,083+8.0%
Commission rate———

Source: DOL Form 5500 filings for plan years 2023 and 2024.

Filings and timeliness

Plans this employer filed under its EIN with a health benefit code. Large plans are due seven months after the plan year ends, or two and a half months later with an extension; amended filings carry the amendment date, so no timing is asserted for them.

PlanPlan year endReceived by DOLTimingParticipants
American Airlines, Inc. Onsite Clinic Health Plan#522 · general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension113,782
American Airlines, Inc. Health and Welfare Plan for Active Employees#501 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension108,278
American Airlines, Inc.Health and Life Plan for Retirees#515 · insurance, general assets, trustDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension26,980
American Airlines, Inc. Health Benefit Plan for Certain Legacy Employees#517 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension9,949
Twa Retiree Health and Life Benefit Plan#511 · insurance, general assets, trustDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension6,805
American Airlines, Inc. DFW Connectedcare Plan#523 · general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension4,729
Supplemental Medical Plan for Employees of Participating American Airlines Group Subsidiaries#503 · general assets, trustDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension717
American Airlines, Inc. Group Life and Disability for Certain Legacy Employees#518 · insurance, general assetsDecember 31, 2024October 13, 2025within extension118

Source: DOL Form 5500 Part I and signature dates; "late" means received after the extended deadline (the 15th day of the tenth month after plan year end). What a late Form 5500 costs.

How much did American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits pay in health insurance broker commissions in 2024?

American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits's 2024 Form 5500 reports $708,083 in broker commissions and fees across 27 insurance contracts ($298,756 in commissions, $409,327 in fees), with Strategic Non Medical Solutions LLC receiving the largest share.

Is American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits's health plan self-funded or fully insured?

The 2024 filing indicates the plan is self-funded (the employer pays claims itself).

How does American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits's broker compensation compare with similar employers?

A commission-to-premium ratio cannot be computed for American Airlines, Inc. -Benefits because the filing does not report medical premium on Schedule A (usual for self-funded plans). In dollars, employers with 5,000+ participants that disclosed broker pay reported a median of $458,262.

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Record built October 24, 2026 from U.S. Department of Labor, EBSA Form 5500 datasets (2025, 2024, 2023 plan years, 'Latest' files). Filings can run 7 to 10 months behind the plan year; always confirm against current plan documents. BenefitsLedger is not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Labor. Open the DOL filing search.