United pilots contract, LOA 23-04 — Enhanced CMPOOL
A. Enhanced CMPOOL is a new coverage metric that takes into account additional coverage considerations. Enhanced CMPOOL will allow coverage to be set and analyzed by reserve starts within SILOs on each day of the bid month.
1. The reserve availability number per SILO, per day, will also look at all legalities for the available reserves. This should include, but is not limited to, qualification status and UPA/FAR legalities. However, the system shall not consider any additional pay that is provided to a reserve who is assigned a trip.
2. The display will also indicate the reserve utilization for the bid month based on UPA reserve caps. The reserves available number that displays would be the number of legal reserves in SILO that could start a trip on that day.
3. The display will also include the current number of open trips in SILO on each day. An example of previous Enhanced Pool is:
4. For example, enhanced CMPOOL will account for the fact that even though there are many reserves available on a particular day, but all of them are 1-day or 2-day reserves, so they would not be available to cover a 3-day trip dropped by a lineholder.
B. The parties shall work collaboratively to establish Enhanced CMPOOL and make it available for Pilot use. Specifically, the parties agree to the following:
1. The parties shall jointly develop the user and administrator interfaces, and software required to make Enhanced CMPOOL function.
2. The Company shall collaborate with ALPA in setting staffing parameters required for the functionality of Enhanced CMPOOL.
3. The Company shall collaborate with ALPA to develop a formula to allow Reserve Pilots to trade reserve days Pilot-to-Pilot through Enhanced CMPOOL without additional Company discretion or the need to engage with a Crew Scheduler.
4. The parties agree to work collaboratively to address any other issues that arise in the development, implementation and maintenance of Enhanced CMPOOL.
C. The parties agree that implementation of Enhanced CMPOOL should be moved forward as quickly as reasonably practical.
1. If Enhanced CMPOOL is not implemented by the first (1st) day of the October 2024 Bid Period, all Pilots will be provided a third (3rd) set of golden days off for use in the 2025-2026
vacation year. Golden days off provided in accordance with this Letter of Agreement shall be bid for and awarded in the same manner as any other golden days off.
2. This remedy shall be extended to any Pilot on the United Pilot Seniority List as of the first (1st) day of the October 2024 Bid Period and who remains on the United Pilot Seniority List on the date annual vacation bidding for the 2025-2026 vacation year is complete.
3. This remedy will renew annually until such time as Enhanced CMPOOL is implemented. For example, if Enhanced CMPOOL is not implemented by the October 2025 Bid Period, all Pilots will receive a third (3rd) set of golden days off again for the 2026-2027 vacation year.
D. Prior to the transition from the existing CMPOOL to Enhanced CMPOOL, the parties will jointly investigate whether any programming changes are necessary to make the Bad Day Worse Day trading logic compatible with Enhanced CMPOOL.
This Letter of Agreement shall become effective on September 29, 2023 and will remain in effect concurrent with Section 25, Duration of the Basic Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have signed this Agreement this 29th day of September, 2023.
FOR UNITED AIRLINES, INC. FOR THE AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION, INT’L
Z. Michael Jones, Vice President Captain Jason Ambrosi, President Labor Relations Air Line Pilots Association, Intl
Captain Marc Champion Captain Garth Thompson, Chair Vice President Flight Operations United Master Executive Council
Mike Hansen, Managing Director Captain Phil Otis, Chair LR & Labor Economics UAL MEC Negotiating Committee
Captain Mary Ann Schaffer, Captain Andy Riggs, Vice-Chair Managing Director Aviation Safety UAL MEC Negotiating Committee
Captain David Zullo, Director Captain Adrian Rivero, Member Pilot Contract Administration UAL MEC Negotiating Committee
Sarah Nau, Director Labor Relations