United Airlines Grants 5% Pay Raise to Pilots | Aero-News Network
Aero-News Network
RSS icon RSS feed
podcast icon MP3 podcast
Subscribe Aero-News e-mail Newsletter Subscribe

Airborne Unlimited -- Most Recent Daily Episodes

Episode Date

Airborne-Monday

Airborne-Tuesday

Airborne-Wednesday Airborne-Thursday

Airborne-Friday

Airborne On YouTube

Airborne-Unlimited-07.14.25

Airborne-NextGen-07.15.25

AirborneUnlimited-07.16.25

Airborne-FlightTraining-07.17.25

AirborneUnlimited-07.11.25

Wed, Nov 16, 2022

United Airlines Grants 5% Pay Raise to Pilots

Unscheduled Raise Shows Need for Retention in Modern Economy

United Airlines Holdings is giving pilots a 5% pay bump as promised during an earlier cost-reduction deal, a few months earlier than anticipated. 

As stipulated in the Pandemic Recovery Agreement (LOA 20-05), the raise was set to go into effect for the May 2023 bid period. Unexpectedly, United, possibly spurred on by a quick return to profitability or tiresome contract negotiations, decided to let it happen earlier than planned. In a message to United pilots, senior vice president of flight operations Bryan Quigley said the pay boost would go into effect in December 2022.

"The LOA provided a 5% hourly increase to current pay rates, as shown in the pay tables in the LOA, once United returns to consistent profitability. Under the terms of the LOA, the company could have waited until the May 2023 bid period to pay out the 5% wage increase. Based on our results through Sept. 30 and guidance for the rest of 2022, however, the company has elected to implement these increases in the December 2022 bid period."

"This is a show of good faith and a down-payment," added Quigley, calling the raise an advance of sorts on a "market-based, industry-leading labor agreement." That statement rankled some United pilots, whose union recently voted to reject a tentative deal that would have included 14.5% of raises over 18 months. They said the offer did not reflect previous agreement from the airline to improve several of its work-rule provisions. 

The union has been unimpressed with what they called a "wait-and-see approach to negotiations" after the vote. A series of informational picketing events became the next focus of the United pilots' union, making some wonder whether or not the raise was aimed at defraying some of the negative PR of the upcoming action.

FMI: www.alpa.org/ual

Advertisement

More News

ANN's Daily Aero-Term (07.15.25): Charted Visual Flight Procedure Approach

Charted Visual Flight Procedure Approach An approach conducted while operating on an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan which authorizes the pilot of an aircraft to proceed >[...]

Aero-News: Quote of the Day (07.15.25)

“When l became the Secretary of Defense, I committed to rebuild our military to match threats to capabilities. Drones are the biggest battlefield innovation in a generation, >[...]

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (07.15.25)

Aero Linx: Stearman Restorers Association Welcome to the Stearman Restorers Association. The Stearman Restorers Association is an independent “Not for Profit” 501C-3 Co>[...]

NTSB Final Report: Kjelsrud Gary Kitfox

Airplane Exhibited A Partial Loss Of Engine Power When It Was About Halfway Down The Runway Analysis: The pilot of the experimental amateur-built airplane was departing from his pr>[...]

NTSB Prelim: Cessna A150L

The Flight Path Was Consistent With Low-Altitude Maneuvering On June 18, 2025, about 0922 mountain standard time, a Cessna A150L airplane, N6436F, was substantially damaged when it>[...]

blog comments powered by Disqus



Advertisement

Advertisement

Podcasts

Advertisement

© 2007 - 2025 Web Development & Design by Pauli Systems, LC