Southwest Airlines is near a take care of its pilots union that would avert a strike proper earlier than the busy vacation season.

According to the union, the 2 events have reached agreements on pay, retirement advantages and different key objects however are nonetheless engaged on an implementation schedule. If an settlement is finalized, it should nonetheless must be ratified by union members. No specifics of the settlement have been introduced.

If ratified, the airline will keep away from having 11,000 pilots stroll off the job.

The doable settlement comes weeks after Southwest reached a take care of its flight attendants union, offering 36% pay will increase for them.

Southwest is without doubt one of the final main airways on the verge of finishing a contract with its pilots union. Delta, American and United have all reached historic agreements with their unions this 12 months, rising the business normal wage considerably.

A deal at Southwest would finish a protracted and contentious spherical of negotiations that noticed the union threatening to strike a number of instances.

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