CAL, TTALPA reach agreement

Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) have signed a col­lec­tive agree­ment cov­er­ing the pe­ri­od Sep­tem­ber 1, 2020, to Au­gust 31, 2023, bring­ing clo­sure to pro­longed ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the par­ties.

The agree­ment, which ad­dress­es salaries, al­lowances and oth­er terms and con­di­tions of pi­lots’ em­ploy­ment, fol­lows sus­tained en­gage­ment and ex­ten­sive di­a­logue be­tween the air­line and the pi­lots’ body.

In a joint state­ment, both sides de­scribed the out­come as a prod­uct of good-faith ne­go­ti­a­tions and a com­mit­ment to sta­ble in­dus­tri­al re­la­tions but did not put a fig­ure to the agree­ment.

The par­ties said the deal pro­vides clar­i­ty and align­ment for both the com­pa­ny and its pi­lots, while sup­port­ing op­er­a­tional sta­bil­i­ty at the na­tion­al car­ri­er.

They not­ed that the sign­ing marks the sec­ond col­lec­tive agree­ment con­clud­ed with­in the past 16 months, al­low­ing both sides to shift fo­cus to­wards op­er­a­tional per­for­mance, work­force sta­bil­i­ty and fi­nan­cial re­silience in a chal­leng­ing avi­a­tion and geopo­lit­i­cal en­vi­ron­ment.

Caribbean Air­lines said it ac­knowl­edged the role of pi­lots in en­sur­ing the safe and ef­fi­cient de­liv­ery of its ser­vices, while TTAL­PA said it recog­nised the air­line’s con­tin­ued en­gage­ment in re­solv­ing out­stand­ing mat­ters through the col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing process.

Both par­ties reaf­firmed their com­mit­ment to on­go­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion to strength­en the em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship and sup­port the long-term growth and sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the air­line.