Retroactive Pay from June 2021. Contract expired.

[Arnie Pye]

I am told that the scheduling section went from 2 paragraphs to 5 pages. There were a lot of holes in the old contract. Also a lot of things that applied better to the context of a charter outfit that are no longer a good fit for a scheduled airline.

That actually could be a real positive. The old CBA wasn't just pre scheduled airline, it was pre CARs duty regs changes, we had 3 bases and the "lmd" yvr/yxx was one base, soon we'll have 7 crew bases...stronger, more precise language would really cut down on the confusion in scheduling and bidding especially when it comes to training new schedulers.

I'm with you there. I would rather have a contract that applies, is clear and designed for the operation that we are conducting.

I'm sure that some very smart people are working on this (or so I hope). It needs to be finished off ASAP before AC decides to hire off the street again. If AC took half a class just from Flair all at once, it would cripple us over the winter vacation season. Finishing the contract puts us in a much better position with a clear path forward.