Air Canada pilots kick\u002Dstarted the bargaining process days after their fellow union members at WestJet ratified a new collective agreement.
The current deal will remain in force until Sept. 29 and its provisions will still apply after that date.“Such negotiations usually take months and this is just the beginning,” said Air Canada spokesperson Peter Fitzpatrick in an email.
“The current agreement, which has been in place for nearly a decade, is a testament to the productive relationship we have with our pilots. We expect the upcoming negotiations to be conducted in this same spirit.”The union’s move comes after 1,800 pilots with WestJet and budget subsidiary Swoop ratified a new agreement that brings them onto a level pay scale, giving flight crews a 24% wage bump over four years and resulting in Swoop’s shutdown at the end of October.
Experts said the deal sets a new standard in Canadian aviation that will put pilots closer to U.S. pay levels and raise costs for airlines still recovering from hundreds of millions of dollars in losses during the pandemic. The pending Air Canada talks also arrive as airlines face intense domestic and cross-border competition from ultralow-cost carriers, such as Flair Airlines and Lynx Air..Labour shortages continue to plague the aviation industry as the sector emerges from the pandemic and the past year’s travel turmoil, with a dearth of workers in areas ranging from air traffic control to ground handling.
United Airlines pilots are also in the middle of talks, pushing for even higher pay than their Delta counterparts, as well as comparable quality-of-life provisions.
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