Air Pac announces new 5yr union contract

Fiji’s international carrier Air Pacific has reached an agreement today announcing a new five year union contract covering the airline’s 254 flight attendants.

The new five year contract to come into effect from December 1, 2011 will avoid redundancies, increase flight attendant base salaries, realign allowances and work rules to increase efficiency and productivity.

The union contract will also see flight attendants eligible to earn a premium pay of 125 per cent of their new base pay for any flying over 70 hours per month.

Air Pacific chief executive Dave Pflieger said the new consensual agreement is not only fair to flight attendants and the company but will also help Air Pacific return to sustained profitability and position it for success and growth in the years ahead.

He said the results of the negotiations are mutually beneficial because they allowed Air Pacific to honour their earlier commitments regarding jobs, pay, and health care.

“In addition, for the first time ever, we are also going to offer all of our flight attendants disability pay coverage for up to one year of hospitalisation or serious illness,” he said.

The new negotiations with the flight attendants as well as those still underway with the Fiji Airline Pilots Association (FALPA), were a key part of the comprehensive transformation plan that Air Pacific began last year to cut costs, improve airline performance, revamp flight schedules and modernise its fleet.

By Nasik Swami

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