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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines pilots union is seeking a Max-imum raise. The airline is currently the launch customer for the Boeing 737\u00a0Max aircraft, but the pilots are stating that they will not fly the\u00a0airplanes without a new contract.\u00a0The Boeing 737\u00a0Max is not current specified in the existing labor contract, as the airplane did not exist at the time that contract was signed. Southwest Airlines is claiming that the new Max\u00a0is the same as the current version of the existing 737, with the exception of\u00a0an updated engine and landing gear, so it does fall under the existing contract.\u00a0The\u00a0Southwest Airlines Pilots Association\u00a0just rejected a new contract proposal last November. New negotiations are scheduled to begin between the two sides next\u00a0months. Delivery of the first aircraft is currently scheduled for\u00a0the third quarter of 2017.<\/p>\n
The airline and the Southwest Airlines pilots union failed to disclose the terms of the proposed\u00a0contract that was rejected. Southwest is trying\u00a0to curb rising costs with increased productivity as part of its pay raise proposal. The existing\u00a0contract was signed in\u00a02012, and both parties are bound by that contract until a new one is signed. This means that any changes outside of the current contract scope would have to be negotiated into a new contract to be effective.\u00a0The airlines position is that the new\u00a0737\u00a0Max is the same aircraft type as Boeing’s\u00a0737-800 specified in the\u00a0current union contract. The\u00a0Southwest Airlines pilots\u00a0union says the existing contract\u00a0agreement\u00a0states\u00a0that each aircraft type to be flown by\u00a0the pilots is clearly listed\u00a0by type and model number. This would leave the only real solution to be a new contract that is agreeable to both parties. Southwest wants to use\u00a0the new aircraft to cut\u00a0the higher costs of flying its less\u00a0fuel\u00a0efficient older 737 models.\u00a0The aim is to\u00a0remove all the 737-300 and 737-500 models from the airlines\u00a0fleet by the middle of 2018. Boeing’s rollout schedule for\u00a0the Max has been ahead of schedule. This is most likely due to the fact that there are minimal changes to the aircraft over the previous generation. The Federal Aviation Administration has yet to make a decision on\u00a0whether or not pilots currently qualified to fly\u00a0Boeing\u2019s 737-700 and 737-800 models will be automatically certified\u00a0to fly the new Max aircraft. If not, they will be required to be re-trained on the newer type.<\/p>\n
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Southwest Airlines pilots union is seeking a Max-imum raise. The airline is currently the launch customer for the Boeing 737\u00a0Max aircraft, but the pilots are stating that they will not fly the\u00a0airplanes without a new contract.\u00a0The Boeing 737\u00a0Max is not current specified in the existing labor contract, as the airplane did not exist at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[45,118,41,46,187,186],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","tag-45","tag-airlines","tag-boeing","tag-max","tag-pilots","tag-southwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}