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Alaska MEC Podcast. Discussions and interviews with ALPA leaders and committee chairs about issues effecting airline pilots.
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Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Pilots Hold Fast to their Bargaining Expectations
In this episode, MEC Chairman Will McQuillen and Negotiating Committee Chairman Chris Gruner discuss with host Communications Chairman David Campbell the commitment ALPA leadership has in maintaining and pressing for the contract improvement priorities identified by Alaska pilots. Those goals are clear, consistent, long overdue, and are driving the efforts of the Negotiating Committee.
San Francisco Crew Base
Given that Alaska Airlines has been vague on whether they would maintain a pilot domicile in San Francisco, ALPA conducted its own research on the viability of keeping a crew base in that city. Also in the episode, Chairman McQuillen reveals what ALPA discovered.
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Re: "the company wants to move towards the same pilot to aircraft ratio that southwest has "(paraphrase). Referencing a study by MIT ( https://web.mit.edu/airlinedata/www/Aircraft&Related.html). Alaska has an aircraft utilization rate of 16.6 hours per day. Southwest has a utilization rate of 10.4. We would need to be 60% more productive than the southwest pilots to even get close to that.
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
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