Mesa Airlines pilots to vote on new tentative agreement

Pilot leaders at Mesa Airlines, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA), have reached a tentative agreement (TA) on a new collective bargaining agreement with their management. The new TA includes pay increases for all pilots, increased vacation accrual, and better retirement benefits among many other contract improvements. Union leaders will now send the new TA to the pilot group for review and a ratification vote beginning June 26. The new TA comes just three months after Mesa pilots requested mediation services from the National Mediation Board (NMB) to facilitate negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement. The pilot group has been in contract negotiations for more than six years with no pay increases since 2010.