Alaska Airlines pilots OK new contract - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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According to the , which representse Alaska’s 1,455 pilots, of the 95 percenrt of those pilots who 84 percent voted in favor of the The new contract includes retirement options for currenrt pilots and will also closethe company’d pension plan to new hires, “reducinf retirement funding risk,” according to the New pilots will participate in a 401(k) plan Pilots will receive a one-time bonus following ratification of the contractt that Alaska Air expects will cost the airlines a total of $20 million. And the airline said the new contract “provides for better productivit yand flexibility.
” “For example, there are changeds to reserve flying provisions that allowe for improved scheduling language that allows for pilots to fly more than the currentr 85-hour monthly limit for pay, and exceptionsz that allow us to suspend certaibn restrictions in irregular operations,” Alaskw Air Group officials said in an SEC The pilots and (NYSE: ALK) of Seattle agreed to a tentatives deal last month. Alaska Airlinesw flew 34.8 percent of all flightsz last yearat Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.