The Alaska Pilots Podcast

The new ALA-HAL Tentative Agreement (TA) brings Hawaiian pilots into a new scheduling system modeled after the existing Alaska CBA. To help Hawaiian pilots understand the nuances of the proposed system and how it differs from our current system under the HAL PWA, we have Joint Negotiating Committee Member Travis Kilcommons. In this episode, we focus on Bid Block Holders – what Hawaiian pilots commonly know as lineholders. We cover when you can drop and trade, changes to the recall system, reassignments and cancellations, and much more. For Alaska and Hawaiian pilots who would like more details on the proposed TA, please visit our Alaska-Hawaiian joint contract site for all our current contract resources.

One of the major items of focus in this negotiation was adopting new cancellation and reassignment protections relative to the current Alaska CBA. In this episode, we detail how those provisions apply under the current Tentative Agreement (TA), including when a schedule change constitutes a reassignment and what a pilot is paid when they are reassigned. Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) Co-Chair David Wilhelm and JNC Member Brandon West explain the new proposed language. Click here for an infographic outlining some of the cancellation and reassignment provisions. For Alaska and Hawaiian pilots who would like more details on the proposed TA, please visit our Alaska-Hawaiian joint contract site for all our current contract resources.

This is the first in a two-part breakdown of Section 25 (Scheduling) of the new Tentative Agreement (TA) from an Alaska pilots’ perspective. This episode covers specifically in-month scheduling: how pilots can adjust their schedules, how reserves get assigned, and the new system of recall. Discussing these topics and more, we have Joint Negotiating Committee Members Brandon West and Israel Young. For Alaska and Hawaiian pilots who would like more details on the proposed TA, please visit our Alaska-Hawaiian joint contract site for all our current contract resources.

With the negotiation of the ALA-HAL Tentative Agreement (TA), Hawaiian pilots will be moving to a system of bidding and scheduling patterned off of the existing Alaska pilots’ system. To cover this new system in more depth and provide Hawaiian pilots with greater background and context, we’ve dedicated this episode to covering monthly bidding from a Hawaiian perspective. Helping to explain the new system, we have Joint Negotiating Committee Members Brandon West and Travis Kilcommons. For Alaska and Hawaiian pilots who would like more details on the proposed TA, please visit our Alaska-Hawaiian joint contract site for all our current contract resources.

For the bidding and scheduling segments in our Tentative Agreement (TA) podcast series, we’ll be covering the important changes from the Alaska and Hawaiian perspectives separately. In this episode, we’re tackling monthly bidding from the Alaska pilots’ point of view, looking into the changes from the current bidding system and what pilots need to know. Covering these topics, we have Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) Co-Chair David Wilhelm and JNC Member Travis Kilcommons. For Alaska and Hawaiian pilots who would like more details on the proposed TA, please visit our Alaska-Hawaiian joint contract site for all our current contract resources.