Marty Davis, chairman and owner, and brother Mitch tour with pilot Brian Roseen on one of the new 737's in Sun Country's fleet.
Sun Country Airlines and its pilots have a new contract after five years of start-and-stop negotiations.
Both sides signed the contract Thursday afternoon, giving the pilots a substantial pay raise.
The agreement, reached last month in Washington, D.C., under supervision of the National Mediation Board, de-escalates tension between the Mendota Heights-based airline and its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, also known as ALPA.
“Our pilots have earned and deserve the contract we have put together,” Marty Davis, Sun Country’s chairman, said at the signing ceremony. “Now we will cohesively move forward.”
Nearly all of the 250 pilots voted on the agreement, with 87 percent approving the terms. The new contract goes into effect on Nov. 1.
“We’ve reached an agreement that will lift us up to economic respectability among our peers,” said Brian Roseen of ALPA.
The pilots voted in February to authorize a strike, but no date was set. Davis threatened the union that the carrier could face a “downsizing” if a labor agreement was not reached.
Executives at the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which operates Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, were so worried about the airline’s future that they temporary suspended plans for a $35 million expansion at Terminal 2, where Sun Country has its gates.
- Source: http://www.startribune.com
Sun Country Airlines owner and chairman Marty Davis, left, and Brian Roseen, chairman of the Sun Country Master Executive Council, came to terms on a new deal.
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