United Airlines offers pilots triple pay to ease omicron flight disruptions

cnbc ^ | DEC 31 20213:57 PM EST | Leslie Josephs

[BenLurkin]

United and the pilots ’union, the Air Line Pilots Association, reached an agreement for higher pay to cover open trips, Bryan Quigley, United’s senior vice president of flight operations said Friday in a staff note, which was seen by CNBC.

Pilots will be offered three-and-a-half times their pay for flying open trips between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3 and triple pay for picking up trips between Jan. 4 and Jan. 29, the note said.

United’s flight attendants are also getting extra pay to pick up trips and other airlines including JetBlue, American, Southwest and Spirit have also jacked up crew pay to avoid holiday flight disruptions.

[austinaero]

Are the pilots sent home being brought back? I hope they are getting extra pay.

[austinaero]

Are the pilots sent home being brought back? I hope they are getting extra pay.

[4Liberty]

hmmm... No Face MASKS worn, or in sight.

[the OlLine Rebel]

How about leasing employees?

What if United could lease eligible employees from JetBlue, e.g.?

[PghBaldy]

I have always respected pilots. They aren’t idiots, or rubes. This is stunning news, if people think about it.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Pilots Union should demand paper from the airline saying that no vaccine will ever be required.

[al baby]

So what she is in Florida

[al baby]

Then Came Sully

[Track9]

“Red eye flight” is going to take on a whole new meaning.

[Col Frank Slade]

“Vaccine mandate flight disruptions”

(If headlines were honest)..

[texas booster]

United and the pilots ’union, the Air Line Pilots Association, reached an agreement for higher pay to cover open trips ...

So maybe not all trips. But triple time and a half, at the top of the pilots union scale is some serious coin before retirement.

[BlackbirdSST]

How did they get to Florida? Their sporty EV?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Every morning our bosses dared us to quit. Not explicitly but it didn’t matter. Now they need their ass. I’d give them the digital salute.

[outofsalt]

I would stay at a Holiday Inn Express for that kind of money!
Where do I sign up?

[4Liberty]

[Chode]

i hope the pilots make-em bleed...

[joma89]

And this cost will be passed onto the customer or even better, government will cover it with taxpayer money.

[mass55th]

They are only allowed to work so many hours straight, then are required to take time off in-between.

[justme4now]

Believe me, more than a few are!

I was one.

NO!
Not a rube .. a CC Pilot!