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Section 19 (Investigation & Discipline)
No changes.
Section 20 (Grievances)
Modified grievance procedure.
Created monthly settlement meetings to hear grievances.
Negotiated a timeline for the implementation and payment of grievance awards.
Negotiated penalties which would be due to the grievant should management fail to meet the timeline
or comply with the award.
Section 21 (System Board)
Moved Expedited Arbitration from LOA to CBA.
Negotiated “loser pays” language for general expenses and expenses related to the “neutral.”
Section 22 (Seniority)
No changes.
Section 23 (Furlough and Recall)
Re‐wrote 23.A.1 to clarify furlough mitigation programs which would automatically be triggered in the
event of a forecast furlough.
• Negotiated a voluntary furlough program.
• Reduced Bid Block Program (RBBP) patterned after the one currently in effect.
• Reduced Reserve Schedule Program (RRSP) patterned after the one currently in effect.
o We chose not to mandate the RBBP and RRSP as currently written because we may
learn things in the coming months that would require changes to make the programs
more effective.
Negotiated a specified time period during which the parties would meet to discuss additional furlough
mitigation programs and a reduction in bid block hours.
Clarified that the minimum monthly guarantee is 75 hours. With mutual agreement bid blocks could be
built as low as 65 hours with proportional adjustments to the open flying and reserve blocks.
Negotiated an increase in the length of time a furloughed pilot is eligible for pass travel from 3 to 12
months.
Section 24 (Vacancies)
Developed language that clarifies how supervisory pilots and pilots on leave participate in the position
bidding process.
Introduced the concept of a “special qualifications base” (e.g. ETOPS base within the SEA base). The
establishment and operations of any “special qualifications base” would require the consent of ALPA.
The Prior Claim provision was revised to clarify that if your position was reduced you would not have
prior claim rights.
Section 25 (Scheduling)
Negotiated a monthly standing bid for pilots.
Extended the time limit for pilots to turn in their medical certificate to Alaska Airlines Records to the 25th
of the month.
Limitation on reserves to perform only one seat substitution per duty period.
Modified the Inadvertent Duplicate Assignment and Trip Displacement language to provide a pilot the
option of a double pay event.
Created the concept of OE Pairings with the goal of providing more time for regular line construction
and reducing the amount of time spent in training.
Required an earlier posting of monthly bids.
Included language to prevent scheduling from holding back open time.
Negotiated language that allows pilots to combine trips during step trading.
Maintained the monthly max of 85 hours for the purposes of line construction.
Negotiated language that allows pilots to pick up to the monthly max plus 5 hours during step trading.
Negotiated Short and Long Call Reserve language
• Short Call – 2 hour call out/79 hour guarantee
o Short Call Reserves can preference trips.
• Long Call – 11 hour call out/75 hour guarantee
o Long Call Reserve conversions are allowed but limited to 4 conversions per bid period
without pilot consent. Long Call Reserves receive 2 hours of pay the first time they are
converted and 1 hour of pay for each additional conversion.
o Long Call Reserves can pick up trips from open time the day prior provided the trip
meets certain criteria.
o Long Call Reserves can preference trips
Negotiated an additional day off for reserves for a total of 12 days off per bid period in the following
blocks.
• One 120 hour block (inviolate)
• One 72 hour block (inviolate)
• Two 48 hour blocks (1 of which is inviolate)
o A reserve scheduled into his day off will be provided the option of an additional 150%
pay for the duty period encroaching into his days off or having the day off restored.
Created language that limits Crew Scheduling’s ability to zone flip reserve pilots.
Reserve reassignment language was changed. A Reserve who is reassigned will receive an additional 2
hours of pay for each reassignment.
Negotiated new trip trading options for bid block holders including
• Same day trades
• Pilot to Pilot trades
o Including out of domicile trades
• The ability to combine trips
• The ability to pick up (only) seat sub events from open time for pay only
Negotiated real‐time trip trading (See implementation timeline in Memorandum of Understanding 09‐
05, the last document in the TA package).
Eliminated the requirement for a pilot flying VSA to reach the monthly max before receiving the
premium. All VSA flying will pay 150%.
Created premium trip designation for open time trips. Premium trips pay 150%.
Negotiated 150% pay for pilots who accept junior available trips.
Negotiated intent language for 25.V.2 (Return to Base Limitation) which clarifies the company’s use of
off line travel.
Created misconnect language.
Created the option for a bid block holder to accept a reassignment in base for 150% pay.
Negotiated Severe Irregular Operations language (SIO).
• An SIO event cannot be determined to exist without the concurrence of the Association.
• Bid Block Holders can be reassigned in base during an SIO provided they are scheduled to return
within 5 hours of their original trip.
• Bid Block Holders who are reassigned will be paid 150% for the entire trip.
Section 26 (General)
Increased legal liability insurance from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.
Negotiated language which provides a pay formula for non‐technical training (e.g. the security test).
This is the same formula for distance learning in Section 11. However, in no case will a pilot be paid less
than 30 minutes at his current hourly rate.
Section 27 (Insurance)
Eliminated Alaska Health plan.
Created an optional High Deductible PPO plan.
Pilot contribution for medical insurance plans will be 18% in 2009, 19% in 2010 and 20% in 2011. Though
2012, pilot’s 2009 employee health plan contribution may not increase by more than 20%.
Negotiated PPO language which provides in‐network coverage for participants who receive, care “Outof‐
Area” where there is no network provider.
Negotiated an increase in the PPO comprehensive lifetime maximum from $2 million to $5 million.
Increased Flexible Spending Account (FSA) employee annual maximum contribution and added language
offering a limited purpose FSA for High Deductible PPO plan participants.
Reduced Out‐of‐Network PPO deductible.
Emergency room deductible increased to $75.
Increased PPO maximum annual out of pocket Co‐Insurance triggers.
Added prescription drug card with mail order option and changed coverage levels.
Clarified mental health coverage.
Increased yearly dental coverage maximum.
Multiple changes to vision coverage.
Increased coverage for hearing aids and chiropractic care.
Increased short‐term disability maximum weekly benefit limits.
Negotiated a new Long Term Disability (LTD) program which will replace the Disability Retirement Plan
for all incumbent pilots not disabled as of 1/1/2010 and all pilots hired after 12/31/2009. The LTD plan
provides the following benefits
• Pilots are eligible for LTD benefits after 30 days of service.
• Allows a pilot to remain on the LTD plan to age 65 while accruing service credit for purposes of
calculation of the Defined Benefit Plan (DB) benefit accruals.
Or
• Upon reaching normal retirement eligibility, pilots will have the option to elect normal
retirement and receive their partial lump sum and lump sum payout from their unused accrued
sick leave bank.
• A pilot who disables on or after age 60 will be provided the same options listed above.
• Pilots who do not elect the partial lump sum option under the conditions provided above would
need to return to service for 365 days to be eligible for the partial lump sum and lump sum
payout from their unused accrued sick leave bank.
• Pilots on LTD will be able to continue their company health care at active pilot rates for 10 years
and then at retired pilot rates.
• Incumbent pilots who select the rebalance or voluntary soft freeze option, and new hire pilots
will receive PISP contributions while on LTD.
• A captain who returns from LTD, and does not qualify for a first class medical, will be pay
protected as a captain.
Agreed to language that introduces a Third Party Administrator (TPA) to determine disability status. The
TPA will be selected by the Retirement Board.
Eligibility for Retiree and Survivor Health Care benefits requires 5 years of service and 45 years of age.
(Note: Above age and service requirement are not required for survivors of actively employed pilots and
survivors of pilots who die while receiving LTD benefits to receive continued health care.)
Increased company‐paid Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage to $150,000 each.
Increased War Zone Death Benefits to $250,000
Section 28 (Retirement)
Negotiated a new retirement plan for pilots hired after 12/31/2009.
• 13.5% DC only
Negotiated new retirement choice options for incumbents.
• Status Quo
o 1.9% DB Multiplier
o 3% DC Contribution
• Rebalance
o 1.9% DB Multiplier through 12/31/2009 1.0% DB Multiplier after 12/31/2009
o DC Contribution increased based on years of service as follows
Years of Credited Service
Company Contribution
Percentage
Less than 5 8%
5 but less than 10 9%
10 but less than 15 10%
15 or more 11%
• Voluntary Soft Freeze
o 1.9% DB Multiplier through 12/31/2009.
o Years of service frozen as of 12/31/2009 but Final Average Compensation (FAC) can
increase.
�� Example: If you retire in 2020 and your highest five years of compensation was
2015‐2020, compensation for those years will be used for purposes of FAC.
o 13.5% DC Contribution
o Pilots electing this option will be 100% vested in the DB plan regardless of years of
service.
o The Death Benefit Account for pilots who elect this option will be frozen as of
12/31/2009 but will continue to accrue interest.
Retained the definition of Normal Retirement as age 60 or 30 years of credited service, whichever
occurs first.
Negotiated a Sick Leave Buy Back Program which pays 25% of a pilots unused primary sick leave bank at
retirement.
Section 29 (Union Security)
No changes.
Section 30 (Flight Data Recording Devices)
Incorporated some Letter of Agreement attached to Contract ’97 into the body of this section.
Section 31 (Duration)
Negotiated a four‐year duration effective April 1, 2009.
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