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Compass Airlines has agreed to increase pay and benefits for some of its 720 pilots.
The contract amendment hikes pay 40 percent for first-year first officers from $25.54 per flight hour to $35.81, a spokeswoman said. The new contract also gives four paid hotel stays per month to commuting pilots, who had none before the change.
The changes took effect Nov. 1 after the Minneapolis-based carrier and its pilot union agreed to open the May 2014 contract for amendments.
Compass Airlines CEO Rick Leach called the new deal "mutually beneficial."
"This agreement gives Compass the tools it needs to remain competitive in the regional airline marketplace," he said in a news release.
"The recent mediated settlement agreement has addressed a number of issues that will improve all our pilots' quality of life," Compass Air Lines Pilots Association group leader Anthony Zerafa said in the joint statement.
Compass pilots fly Embraer 170 and 175 regional jets for Delta Air Lines Inc. as Delta Connection and American Airlines as American Eagle. Based out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the carrier has crew bases in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Seattle.
Compass says it averages more than 220 daily North American flights serving more than 4 million passengers a year. The carrier is adding 20 Embraer 175 aircraft to its fleet this year, which it expects will increase passenger traffic by 36 percent between 2015 and 2016.
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2015/12/compass-airlines-gives-first-year.html
The contract amendment hikes pay 40 percent for first-year first officers from $25.54 per flight hour to $35.81, a spokeswoman said. The new contract also gives four paid hotel stays per month to commuting pilots, who had none before the change.
The changes took effect Nov. 1 after the Minneapolis-based carrier and its pilot union agreed to open the May 2014 contract for amendments.
Compass Airlines CEO Rick Leach called the new deal "mutually beneficial."
"This agreement gives Compass the tools it needs to remain competitive in the regional airline marketplace," he said in a news release.
"The recent mediated settlement agreement has addressed a number of issues that will improve all our pilots' quality of life," Compass Air Lines Pilots Association group leader Anthony Zerafa said in the joint statement.
Compass pilots fly Embraer 170 and 175 regional jets for Delta Air Lines Inc. as Delta Connection and American Airlines as American Eagle. Based out of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the carrier has crew bases in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Seattle.
Compass says it averages more than 220 daily North American flights serving more than 4 million passengers a year. The carrier is adding 20 Embraer 175 aircraft to its fleet this year, which it expects will increase passenger traffic by 36 percent between 2015 and 2016.
http://www.kathrynsreport.com/2015/12/compass-airlines-gives-first-year.html
