{"id":76300,"date":"2024-09-15T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guid_108034351"},"modified":"2024-09-15T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T12:00:09","slug":"air-canada-reaches-last-minute-agreement-with-pilots-union-averting-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/air-canada-reaches-last-minute-agreement-with-pilots-union-averting-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada reaches last-minute agreement with pilots union, averting strike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/air-canada-reaches-last-minute-agreement-with-pilots-union-averting-strike.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbed\" id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-108030947\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imagePlaceholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:55.55555555555556%\">\n<div style=\"height:100%\" class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCaption\">An Air Canada Boeing 777-333(ER) is preparing to take off on the runway at Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Barcelona, Spain, on May 1, 2024.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"InlineImage-imageEmbedCredit\">JoanValls | Nurphoto | Getty Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Air Canada<\/span><span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" aria-label=\"Add To Watchlist\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> said early on Sunday it had reached a tentative agreement with its pilots union over a new four-year collective agreement, in a last-minute deal that will avert a near-term strike or lockout. <\/p>\n<p>Before the tentative agreement was reached, Canada&#8217;s largest airline had been preparing to progressively cancel flights over three days and to completely shut down its operations as early as 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) on Wednesday, Sept. 18.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:100%\" class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<p>Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, which operate nearly 670 flights per day carrying about 110,000 passengers as well as freight, will now continue flying as normal, the airline said. <\/p>\n<p>Air Canada said in a statement the terms of its new agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) representing more than 5,200 pilots will remain confidential, pending a ratification vote by its members expected to be completed over the next month.<\/p>\n<p>The ALPA said in a separate statement that its leaders had approved the tentative agreement with Air Canada for member ratification. <\/p>\n<p>The two sides have been negotiating a new contract for the past 15 months, with the pilots demanding wage rates that would narrow the pay gap with their counterparts at major U.S. carriers such as United Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon said in a post on X that travel disruptions for Canadians were prevented thanks to the hard work of the parties and federal mediators. <\/p>\n<div style=\"height:100%\" class=\"lazyload-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-108034288\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday the Canadian government would not intervene to end the dispute like it did last month within 24 hours to end a strike at the two largest rail companies, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National Railway. <\/p>\n<p>Air Canada had earlier offered a wage increase of more than 30%, as well as improved pension and health benefits. But the union said the proposal was not good enough for their members who have been working under pay rates and quality-of-life provisions negotiated in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots at U.S. airlines have negotiated hefty pay raises in new contracts in the past two years amid a travel boom and staffing shortages. United&#8217;s new pilot contract, for example, included pay increases of about 42%.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, some United pilots now earn 92% more than their counterparts at Air Canada, the pilots&#8217; association&#8217;s data shows. In 2013, the pay gap was just 3%. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ArticleBody-MobileAdhesion\" class=\"MobileAdhesion-container\" data-module=\"mps-slot\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Canada Boeing 777-333(ER) is preparing to take off on the runway at Barcelona-El Prat Airport in Barcelona, Spain, on May 1, 2024.&nbsp; JoanValls | Nurphoto | Getty Images Air Canada said early on Sunday it had reached a tentative agreement with its pilots union over a new four-year collective agreement, in a last-minute &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bussiness","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}