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Breaking: Air Canada agrees to new contract with pilots, avoids strike

Air Canada and the union representing more than 5,200 pilots announced Saturday night they have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract, averting a threatened strike that could have started within days.

The preliminary deal must still be ratified by members of the Air Line Pilots Association. Air Canada (TSX: AC) said contract terms will remain confidential until the ratification vote, which is expected to take place within a month, and approval of the Air Canada board of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-air-canada-agrees-to-new-contract-with-pilots-avoids-strike

FedEx pilots face pay cuts, buyouts as contract talks resume

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FedEx Express soon plans to cut the minimum number of flight hours guaranteed to pilots by 13% and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/fedex-pilots-face-pay-cuts-buyouts-as-contract-talks-resume

Pilots ask FedEx to halt Hong Kong layovers over COVID rules

A white FedEx cargo jet with blue tail climbing through a bright blue sky.

Pilots for Federal Express (NYSE: FDX) are directly appealing to Chairman, CEO and founder Frederick Smith to stop layovers in Hong Kong because of onerous quarantine conditions they say force crews to be hospitalized against their will in substandard quarters and put their well-being at risk.

In a letter posted to Twitter on Friday, Joe DePete, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, repeated calls for the express delivery company to suspend brief rest stays “until these egregious layover...

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Pilots urge FedEx to suspend Hong Kong flights over COVID mandates

Close up of blue FedEx jet tails. FedEx pilots are upset about COVID health measures in Hong Kong.

Pilots at FedEx Express (NYSE: FDX) are urging the express carrier to suspend flight operations in Hong Kong over concerns about requirements that airline crews submit to mandatory hospital quarantines under what they describe as dangerous conditions.

The FedEx unit of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said late Tuesday that three pilots who tested positive for COVID-19, but were asymptomatic, were forced by Hong Kong authorities to spend up to 10 days in government-selected hospital...

https://s29755.pcdn.co/news/pilots-urge-fedex-to-suspend-hong-kong-flights-over-covid-mandates