Charter & Fractional
Proposed contract stirs hornets’ nest at NetJets
Mount Saint Helens wasn’t the only imminent eruption last month.

Mount Saint Helens wasn’t the only imminent eruption last month. With liquid magma figuratively coursing through their veins, many NetJets pilots–estimated by some in the flying ranks to be an “overwhelming majority”–were expressing anger over the tentative agreement (TA) their master executive council (MEC) struck with the company for a new three-year labor contract.

NetJets has the only unionized pilot group working at any of the fractional aircraft providers. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 284 represents the pilots, and the Teamsters’ airline division assisted during the negotiations for the new TA. The current five-member NetJets pilot MEC consists of chairman Dave Vermeulen, vice chairman Peter Britt, Paul Heimann, Roger Battistoni and Mitch Michel.