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Old 11-20-2023 | 04:02 PM
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The Hard Sell Escalates!


Contract 2020 Before Landing Checklist Series

SWAPA is preparing our approach to Contract 2020 by both being ready to “land” a deal and to “go around” and execute a contingency plan. Every Pilot must do their part to be ready to land. SWAPA has already prepared the membership to execute the go-around.

This Contract 2020 Checklist Series is a quick refresher to help with the land portion of our task and easily highlights the changes in the rewrite of Contract 2020.

We must know the “why” behind the contract to begin to understand a rewritten TA, when we get one. For more on this, listen to the upcoming The SWAPA Number Podcast with NC member Kurt Heidemann that comes out Monday (11/27). So, let’s get started with our first “checklist” item in the series.

Contract 2020 Before Landing Checklist 1 ...Compensation, LCO, Rigs, Etc.

Beginning in the Flight Plan 2020 document, we find the goals identified at the outset of the negotiation that showed us that Pilots were looking for:
  • Rates competitive with Big 4 competitors, career compensation
  • Clarity on compensation, rigs, pay multiples, overrides
  • Adequate compensation for reassignments and JA
  • Improved Reserve Pay, Training Pay, MX Check Flights, Company meeting pay
  • Timely audits
  • Additional holidays capturing premium pay


Now let’s look at the Contract 2020 Blueprint for Success series for more on where our Contract goals led to our asks going into negotiations:
  • Capturing additional pay for changes to pairings, JA events, and previously unavailable pay-multiples through Leg Change Override (LCO) is the strategy to compensate our Pilots for reassignments and JAs, while pressuring the Company to reduce their reliance on schedule disruptions to achieve their goals.
  • Provide our Pilots with compensation for additional holidays that traditionally are limited from trading, yet uncompensated in premium pay that our counterparts at the Company receive.
  • Driving full rigs on open time to encourage open time participation. Pay multiples to ensure that reassignments, or “bait and switch,” are compensated to:
  • Ensure that the practice is not encouraged.
  • Compensation rewards the inconvenience placed on the Pilot.



There is so much more to be gained if they just had the will to try. In this environment they have to go for every demand and not stop at this.
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