Wed, Mar 17, 2021
Jazz Pilots Will Fly All 70+ Seat Aircraft Under The Air Canada Express Banner Until 2025
Sunday night, pilot leaders of Jazz Aviation, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) finalized an agreement with their management that enables the company to become the exclusive express operator for Air Canada.
The pilots agreed to terms which enable revision of the capacity purchase agreement (CPA) between Jazz Aviation LP, and Air Canada. Under the agreement, Jazz pilots will fly all 70+ seat aircraft under the Air Canada Express banner until 2025. Jazz will add 25 Embraer 175s (76-seat aircraft) transferred from Sky Regional, while 19 Dash 8-300s will be removed from their fleet guarantee. Jazz Aviation LP had to reach an agreement with its pilots as a prerequisite for the capacity purchase agreement revisions.
“A long-term goal of Jazz pilots has been to reach consecutive agreements with airline management to facilitate the consolidation of Air Canada Express flying at Jazz. We look forward to welcoming our colleagues from Sky Regional and are pleased to deliver an agreement that provides additional job security to our pilots,” said Capt. Claude Buraglia, chairman of the Jazz chapter of ALPA. “Jazz pilots are proud to become the sole operator of Air Canada Express, and we are prepared to support Air Canada’s recovery through the pandemic and into the future.”
As part of the agreement reached between Jazz Aviation LP and the Air Line Pilots Association, Sky Regional pilots will be offered employment at Jazz. Capt. Cam Hill, chairman of the Sky Regional chapter of ALPA said, “Sky Regional Pilots are happy to become part of Jazz pilots’ 90-year history; however, we will miss our Sky Regional colleagues from other employee groups who are unable to join us. By joining Jazz, Sky Regional pilots will have the opportunity to continue their careers while working under Jazz’s mature Collective Agreement that provides pilots with significant job security through 2035.”
The CPA is retroactive January 1, 2021.
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