Charter & Fractional
Flight Options negotiations continue
Flight Options pilots are only marginally closer to having a negotiated contract nearly a year-and-a-half after voting in a union.

Flight Options pilots are only marginally closer to having a negotiated contract nearly a year-and-a-half after voting in a union. The fractional provider’s more than 600 line pilots are represented by Local 1108, the same group that represents NetJets’ pilots.

According to a union spokesman, the negotiations between Flight Options and its pilots are “going fairly well overall,” but the issues that remain–scope, wages, schedules, bases and domiciles–will be the most difficult to resolve. As a result, the spokesman said he believes the National Mediation Board will need to be called in next year to act as a referee in the talks.