Alaska Airlines pilots aren't happy with their contracts - and neither are Delta's. Capt. Will McQuillen joined Dave Ross and Colleen O'Brien on Seattle's Morning News to explain what they're fighting for: ALPAPilots
Alaska Airlines has a shortage of pilots, and the head of the company’s pilot union claims that their position— represented by negotiations that have been ongoing for three years— advocates for industry-standard job security and “basic quality of life” benefits, as Capt. Will McQuillen, Alaska Air’s Master Executive Council chairman, put it to KIRO Newsradio.
“The major airlines are poised to hire 8,000 to 10,000 pilots this year alone … [we’re] competing for a scarce resource,” McQuillen told KIRO’s Dave Ross and Colleen O’Brien. “Right now, for about the first time in a very, very long time in this industry, pilots have a choice of investing their career almost anywhere they want to.”
“They will gravitate towards an airline that gives them the best opportunity, the best work-life balance, the best job protections for that investment that they’re making,” he continued. “We’re seeing very clearly in exit interviews that, specifically for Alaska, pilots are leaving for quality of life reasons.”
The union’s contract technically expired in April of 2020, although has been floating as “amendable” since that time.over their bargaining demands. The airline’s concurrent flight cancellations were unrelated, according to McQuillen. Listen to Seattle’s Morning News weekday mornings from 5 – 9 a.m. on KIRO Newsradio, 97.3 FM. Subscribe to the
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