Air Canada pilots have reached a tentative agreement with the airline, according to the Air Line Pilots Association. Sixty-seven percent of members voted in favor of ratifying the deal.
The agreement provides the carrier’s 5,400 pilots with a cumulative wage increase of nearly 42 percent over the next four years.
Charlene Hudy, chair of the union’s Air Canada contingent, stated that the deal aims to restore compensation that pilots have lost over the past two decades.
The wage increase surpasses the gains achieved by pilots at the three largest U.S. airlines last year, where pay hikes ranged from 34 to 40 percent, although those pilots started from a higher baseline.
