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1.13 "Final Average Earnings" shall mean the sum of the Participant's highest total Earnings during any 36 consecutive months occurring during the
120 months immediately prior to the Participant's Normal Retirement Date, divided by three (3).
1.14 "Human Resources Committee" shall mean the Human Resources Committee of the Board.
1.15 "Normal Retirement Age" shall mean age sixty-two (62).
1.16 "Normal Retirement Date" shall mean the first day of the month immediately following or coincident with the date on which the Participant attains
Normal Retirement Age.
1.17 "Participant" shall mean any person who has an Account under the Plan.
1.18 "Participation Agreement" shall mean a written agreement, executed and dated by the Company and a Participant, evidencing a Participant's
participation in this Plan, and setting forth the schedule of Contributions and the actuarial assumptions used to determine such Participant's benefits hereunder.
1.19 "Plan" shall mean this US Airways Funded Executive Defined Contribution Plan, as set forth herein and as amended from time to time.
1.20 "Prior SERPs" shall mean all individual supplemental executive retirement agreements entered into by the Company and the Participants before
the Effective Date.
1.21 "Retirement Benefit" shall mean the lump sum benefit payable under this Plan, as determined under Article III.
1.22 "Scheduled Contribution" shall have the meaning given in Section 4.1 hereof.
1.23 "Tax Payment" shall have the meaning given in Section 5.4 hereof.
1.24 "Trust" shall mean that certain taxable trust that the Company shall enter into contemporaneously with the execution of this Plan, with the trustee
designated therein (the "Trustee"), and which shall hold any and all Contributions made pursuant to this Plan, and any investment earnings on such
Contributions. It is the intent of the parties to this Plan that such Trust shall constitute a "secular" trust, and its assets shall not be subject to the claims of the
Company's general or secured creditors (other than the Participants) in the event of the Company's insolvency or bankruptcy. The Company's Contributions to
such Trust shall be taxable to the Participants as ordinary compensation paid by the Company to the Participants in the year in which such Contribution is
actually transferred to the Trust. Any earnings on a Participant's Account in the Trust shall be included in the gross income of the Participant pursuant to Code
Section 402(b)(4).
1.25 "Years of Actual Service" shall mean, as of any Determination Date, the Participant's total number of years of active employment with the
Company during which substantial services were rendered as an employee (including employment before the Effective Date). Years of Actual Service shall be
measured from the Participant's date of hire. Participants will be credited with Years of Service in units of 1/12th of a year.
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