A well-known website reported on Wednesday that United Airlines Holdings Inc. (UAL.O) and its pilots’ union are back at the negotiating table for a new deal. This comes after they reached a temporary agreement last month.
According to the report, the United part of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said that a few pilots’ assumptions about the current arrangement “missed the mark.”
A well-known website asked for feedback from United Airlines and ALPA, but they didn’t respond right away.
The conditional agreement that was approved last month was supposed to give pilots a pay raise of more than 14% in the next year and a half if it was decided at the start of the year.
The two-year agreement, which was recently approved by association leaders, has been sent to the public for approval and is expected to end on July 15.
United was the only big U.S. airline that reached a new deal with its pilots. This deal was supposed to set a standard for how other transporters deal with contracts.
ALPA works with more than 62,000 pilots in 38 U.S. and Canadian aircraft. Its website says that this makes it the largest carrier pilot association in the world.
Almost all of the major carriers have had to contend with pilots demanding higher pay and better benefits in “exhausting” plans for new contracts.
In order to get and keep good pilots, three provincial transporters owned by American Airlines (AAL.O) announced big pay raises for pilots this month.
Piedmont Airlines expanded to the point where it could pay its pilots up to 87 percent more.
