Online voting regarding a proposed contract for 436 Hawaiian Airlines pilots opened on Jan. 5.
"This is an industry-leading agreement that will make our members among the best-paid pilots among their peers and give them the major-airline status that is consistent [with] the world-class airline that they helped create," Capt. Eric Sampson, chairman of the Hawaiian Airlines Master Executive Council of ALPA, said in a statement. "The ALPA leadership unanimously endorses the tentative agreement, and we encourage every Hawaiian pilot to vote yes."
According to the ALPA statement, Hawaiian pilots would receive a 20.6% pay raise over the course of the five-year, eight-month contract, plus profit sharing.
Under the new agreement, company retirement contributions would also increase 19.4% per year for those pilots whose pensions were frozen and replaced with a defined contribution plan when Hawaiian exited bankruptcy in 2005.
Online voting for the tentative agreement will continue through Jan. 14.