As an outsider looking in (at an airline duking it out with management) I would appreciate any details y’all could share...

Never again can we agree to arbitration! Alaska pilot as a group need to grow some balls for 2020! No scope. God help us.

Cliffs for the uninitiated?


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Any idea what the arbitrators based the scope decision on? Comparison to LCC's like NK, F9? I don't know which of them even have scope yet...

I was really hoping for scope but I was expecting them to not touch scope with a 10 foot pole.

Cliff notes:

No scope
No Retro
No international/ETOPS override increase

Pretty fair and good pay scale
15.5% retirement
Highest first year pay in the industry.

I am super bummed about no retro pay and no scope, but I wasn't banking on either one.

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Cliff notes:

ALPA proposal for scope and job protection is denied.

Top scale hourly rates will be $251

New pay rates for years 1-5. They are pretty much what the company wanted, plus a few dollars. Other years were denied and directed back to the parties for future negotiation.

ALPA proposal for increase to international/etops is denied

ALPA proposal for increase in the DC contribution rate is denied.

Non-DB plan pilots increase to 15% this year, and to 15.5% next year

ALPA proposal to amend contributions in excess of qualified plan limits is denied.

“Fair pay scale” but does it matter when Skywest is flying around in more E-175s than Alaska has 73s?

Here is the pay scale.

We can argue that all day long. Of course scope is more important, but for anyone to think we were going to get a comprehensive scope agreement in arbitration is smoking crack, even the ALPA scope proposal would have imposed no limitation on the amount of flying Skywest could do.

I am not super mad at the payscale, but overall this is a win for management that is for sure.