Negotiating Committee Update – April 20, 2026

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Fellow Pilots,

Over the past several weeks, the Company and the Union have been negotiating over changes to our current CBA in the form of a bridge agreement. Many of you have asked what that means.

Simply put, a bridge agreement would amend and replace the 2016 collective bargaining agreement ahead of future negotiations with Allegiant over a joint collective bargaining agreement (JCBA) covering the combined Allegiant and Sun Country pilot groups.

Any bridge agreement that we would support must provide Allegiant pilots with long overdue improvements to their pay, benefits and working conditions. The bridge agreement would trigger the payout of retention bonuses upon ratification of such an agreement by members of our Union. While regulatory approvals from the DOJ and DOT have been achieved on an expedited basis, integration of the pilot groups will not occur until after there is a seniority list integration and a contract (for example, a JCBA) covering the combined pilot groups in the future, among other steps in the process.

For our pilot group, entering JCBA negotiations with an improved version of current CBA would be doubly beneficial: 1) we get improvements sooner rather than later; and 2) we have a stronger foundation in JCBA negotiations because our current contract would have improved. In order to reach improvements to our current CBA in the short term with a merger on the horizon, your Negotiating Committee must focus on bargaining priorities, meaning some issues will be addressed now and others later in JCBA negotiations.

After careful consideration, we believe pursuing meaningful improvements now is the most beneficial option for Allegiant pilots, therefore, we have been pursuing that path.

On the morning of March 31st, the Company presented its initial bridge proposal. This proposal included some improvements for the pilot group, but it also contained provisions that were unacceptable and primarily benefited the Company. We presented our counterproposal via Zoom on Friday, April 10th, and met with the Company in mediation on April 16th and 17th to receive their response. In mediation, we made some progress, but the Company’s proposal did not satisfy our priorities for a bridge agreement.

While the Company’s counterproposal did not result in an agreement, we see a path forward. This week, the Union and Company continued discussions outside of mediation. Those discussions were constructive and we are waiting for a new proposal from the Company. We believe there is an opportunity to reach an agreement that delivers meaningful quality-of-life improvements, compensation increases that begin to move us away from the bottom of the industry and other improved terms and conditions.

Now, more than ever, unity within this pilot group is critical. We have said it before, and it bears repeating: your support and solidarity are essential as we navigate this phase of negotiations. Our goal is to ensure we secure priority improvements now and enter JCBA negotiations from a position of strength, with a solid foundation already in place.

We ask you to stand with us as we continue this effort.
Fraternally,

Your Negotiating Team

New Hotel Discount Program Obtained

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Fellow Pilots,

Through our continued membership in the Pilot’s Layover Network (International Hotel Committee Group), your Hotel Committee has secured a new Hyatt hotel discount plan.

This is a commuter rate primarily offered at crew‑base airport locations for pilots and flight attendants, so it is not widely advertised. That said, there are enough cities we travel to—and vacation in—as crew members that this rate should provide meaningful value. While marketed as a commuter rate, the discount may be applied to any Hyatt stay, not just commuting trips. For example, the Hyatt Place in Lake Mary near SFB is currently participating. We encourage members to try this rate when booking Hyatt properties, as availability may vary by location.

According to our Hyatt representative, this rate does qualify for World of Hyatt points. While we have not independently verified this through a completed booking, Hyatt indicated points eligibility is included.

How to use the discount:
1. Go to Hyatt.com
2. Under Special Rates, select Special Offer Code
3. Enter the code: CMUT

As always, availability and blackout dates may apply.
Fraternally,

Your Hotel Committee

GOM Changes Resolved, CBA Protections Reinforced

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Fellow Pilots,

Your union was able to reach an agreement with the company that effectively eliminates the early 2025 GOM revisions relating to pilot contact that were adopted by the Company and not in compliance with our CBA and past practice.

At the core of this settlement is a clear reset of the communication expectations to those existing before the Company’s changes. The final language ties pilot obligations directly to the concept of Positive Contact, which is defined in our contract. This means that while on duty, pilots are only required to respond to Crew Scheduling when that standard has been met. That is, the pilot must be notified in person by a non-crewmember (e.g. a gate agent) that they need to contact Crew Scheduling. Pilots assigned to flying duty from a RAP remain subject to the requirements of Section 16.E.4 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The resolution with the Company also clarifies that if Flight Operations leadership attempts to contact a pilot while on duty and the pilot misses the call for non-disciplinary or operational control matters (not scheduling issues), the pilot must respond as soon as practicable and no later than the end of that duty period. Flight Ops leadership may reach out to pilots while they are off duty to discuss these matters, but a pilot is not required to respond while they are on rest. The much broader and more aggressive requirements from the Company’s earlier GOM revisions has been removed and replaced with language that is consistent with our contract.

In addition, all discipline rendered under these GOM changes and associated with these GOM changes has been rescinded.

As part of this resolution, the Union has withdrawn the related disciplinary grievances, bringing this matter to a close. The Company agreed to cover all costs associated with the cancelled arbitration proceedings. Additionally, with resolution of these arbitrations, we were able to convert the days scheduled into additional contract negotiation dates.

This is a solidly positive result for our pilot group. We successfully pushed back on company overreach, reinforced the protections in our CBA, and secured the removal of discipline from pilots’ records without incurring the risks, time, or costs associated with arbitration.
Fraternally,

Your Executive Board

Negotiating Committee Update – April 10, 2026

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Fellow Pilots,

In response to a bridge agreement proposal from the Company on March 31 and an updated PBS LOA on April 8, today, the Union provided the Company with a counter-proposal for a bridge agreement that includes substantial pay increases, maintenance of our high quality insurance benefits, improvements to retirement, improved working conditions, and a PBS LOA. On the subject of the PBS LOA, the parties are now reviewing final language in preparation for a tentative agreement.

The purpose of any acceptable bridge agreement from the Union’s perspective is to ensure that Allegiant pilots receive long overdue improvements to their pay, benefits and working conditions in anticipation of bargaining for additional improvements in the near future when there are negotiations over a contract covering the combined Allegiant and Sun Country pilot groups.

The Union’s proposal delivers long overdue improvements for Allegiant pilots – pilots who have made this merger possible through their hard work, dedication and sacrifices – while ensuring that the Company’s legitimate interests are addressed.

The National Mediation Board has scheduled sessions for April 16, April 17, May 7, May 8, and tentatively May 14, 15 and May 18. We look forward to receiving a reply to our proposal when negotiations resume next week.
Fraternally,

Your Negotiating Team

2026 Q1 Newsletter – Scheduling Committee Update

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Scheduling Committee Update

Something we contend with month to month is the company’s published projections on the number of Pure Lines, Composite, and Reserve Lines. This is a best guess, “good faith” estimate of what the company is predicting when the bid lines are awarded. Occasionally, the actual results can vary quite a bit from the published projections, but is CBA compliant.

Make sure when you bid, you bid your line preference in the order you wish it to be awarded. We have seen issues where pilots did not want a high PCH line and would have preferred reserve. Keep in mind, it’s virtually guaranteed in high fly months, most of the awarded lines will be high PCH and built to the higher end of the PCH window.

I would also make sure you bid enough trips to ensure you meet the published PCH values. Every month we see pilots that have failed to bid enough trips and get forced into a composite line or reserve by fractions of an hour. One method you can use is the “No Pref” option and the solver will use the low PCH bid window and the high PCH window allowing more flexibility. Sorting trips by PCH vs. show time, for example, would have also helped some pilots get lines over past months.

As many of you have noticed by now, the company is constructing more multi day pairings. Currently the company has stated there is no intention of moving away from our out-and-back model but some of our bases had a significant percentage of multi-day trips. The reason for most of these pairings is to cover transition training in other bases. I would expect this to continue for some time.

We are also working alongside the company to bring CAE’s replacement for Merlot crew scheduling software online. More to come on this in the future.

Lastly, we’re looking for a few more volunteers to join the scheduling committee. Ideally we are seeking West coast pilots. Knowledge of section 15, NavBlue, and Excel are desired. Please send us an email if interested.

Fly safe!
Scheduling Committee
Scheduling@apa2118.org

Negotiating Committee Update – April 6, 2026

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Fellow Pilots,

Your Negotiating Team was in Las Vegas March 31st through April 2nd for a scheduled mediated session with the company at Allegiant Headquarters. Jack Stephan, the NMB assigned mediator, also traveled to Las Vegas to attend this session in person.

On the first day of the session, March 31st, your Negotiating Team received a response from the company on the Union’s full-language PBS LOA pass from the previous week. While the proposal did include some areas of movement in the Unions direction, it also included some areas that required further analysis and a counterproposal.

Shortly after that presentation the company presented your Negotiating Team with a proposal to reach amendments to the CBA on an expedited basis. After this presentation, your Negotiating Team went back to the Local Union office to begin to analyze and develop responses to the company’s proposals.

During the second day, April 1st, your Negotiating Committee continued to carefully analyze and diligently work into the evening on the two documents presented to your Negotiating Committee the previous day.

After working internally for most of the third day, April 2nd, your Negotiating Team met with the mediator and company. We provided an update on our progress. We told them that the plan was to have a full-language response to the company’s PBS LOA proposal by the close of business Friday April 3rd, which is what we did. We expect management to respond later this week. We continue to work the company’s expedited CBA proposal and plan to respond to the company soon.

The company and your Negotiating Committee have scheduled more mediated sessions for the following dates:

April 17th, May 7-8th, and tentatively May 14-15th, and May 18th

Your Negotiating Committee remains focused on achieving the contract this pilot group deserves. We appreciate your continued support. Look for additional updates after we respond to the company.
Fraternally,

Your Negotiating Team

The On Call Steward: a 24/7 Resource for our Pilots

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Fellow Pilots,

As of April 1, the committee has instituted an on call steward to be available to pilots at all times. Pilots can contact the on call Steward via the main union office phone number (702) 268-7591 (Option #2), with immediately time-sensitive questions or issues. Questions that are not time-sensitive should instead be emailed to stewards@apa2118.org and will be answered promptly.

Stewards are experts in Collective Bargaining Agreement language and interpretation and can act as representation for pilots in everything from disagreements with crew services to potentially disciplinary Section 18 meetings. Stewards also review and shepherd the grievance process and are happy to assist pilots in writing or submitting grievances properly. We strongly encourage pilots to contact the stewards if an assignment seems to be illegal or in violation of the contract. While it’s always good to ask fellow pilots for advice, to get the official union position pilots should contact the stewards.

Q: I have an issue and I’m not sure which committee to contact, where should I start?

A: Contact your union stewards at stewards@apa2118.org or for an immediately time-sensitive issue call (702) 268-7591 (Option #2).
Fraternally,

Your Steward Committee

2026 Q1 Newsletter – Fatigue Committee Update

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Fatigue Committee Update

The Fatigue Committee encourages all pilots to review the following quick list of fatigue‑reporting do’s and don’ts.

Do’s and don’ts for fatigue reports:

Do: if you need it, use the program.

Fatigue is an essential safety program, and it is our responsibly as pilots to never operate an aircraft if we ever feel it would be unsafe to do so. Pilots can also file proactive reports – which are purely informational and do not constitute actually calling out fatigued – if they feel an assignment or schedule is likely to cause fatigue or a report in hindsight if they have actually experienced fatigue in flight, as this data can be very useful to safety efforts.

Don’t: forecast fatigue. 

A pilot is considered to be forecasting fatigue if they claim fatigue in advance of actually experiencing it. Pilots should call out only when they feel they are not able to operate the immediately upcoming leg, simulator event, or deadhead without any remaining opportunity to achieve rest. Phrases such as “looking ahead at my long duty day” are likely to result in a rejected report.

Do: Be concise. 

The joint union and company panel that reviews fatigue reports is responsible for determining the primary cause of fatigue including if it was operationally or non-operationally induced. Please avoid extraneous or irrelevant details if possible. As fatigue reports are part of a vital safety program, please refrain from commenting on unrelated concerns such as contract negotiations or stations issues in your report.

Don’t: use AI

The FRRC has seen an uptick in fatigue report language that appears to be AI-generated. We would strongly caution our pilots against using AI without due concern for the potential inaccuracy, open-source security issues, or due professionalism these safety reports necessitate.

Fly safe,
Fatigue Committee
fatigue@apa2118.org

2026 Q1 Newsletter – HIMS Committee Update

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HIMS Committee Update

Your APA 2118 HIMS Committee has been working to develop an updated HIMS Program Manual. Our goal is not just to bring our program up-to-date with industry standards, but to achieve an industry leading HIMS Program. Allegiant has been cooperatively working with us to provide more financial assistance to our participants. Our new Manual is aimed to secure better financial assistance for our pilots while working to obtain a Special Issuance Medical Certificate, as well as updated language and protections in other Program areas.

HIMS National hosts multiple educational seminars throughout the year. In May, APA 2118 is sending two volunteers to the HIMS Advanced Topics Seminar to gather up-to-date information so that we can continue to provide our participants a Program geared toward making the process of obtaining a Special Issuance as seamless and efficient as possible.

Your APA 2118 HIMS Committee continues to work to give our pilots an excellent HIMS Program. We thank our volunteers, and everyone involved for helping to make that possible.

Fly safe,
HIMS Committee
hims@apa2118.org

2026 Q1 Newsletter – Hotel Committee Update

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Hotel Committee Update

To reiterate on the previous email sent out last week, your hotel committee is very happy to see the beginning of the rollout of Navan for all crewmembers’ bookings.  As stated, this will be done in sections with instructors getting the initial self-booking benefit.  Line crews will eventually be able to self-book training but that will be communicated later when that is officially available.  As for now Crew Services and Crew Travel will be using Navan to make Crew hotel and airfare bookings.  If you haven’t already done so, please download the Navan app to your personal device or your company iPad. Once you have it installed you will then set up your profile including all of your loyalty numbers. For the time being the hotel and flight information will still be on your Merlot notes (we have been told) but it will eventually only show on the Navan app. One of the benefits of using the Navan app is the presence of the digital credit card within the app itself.  Should you run into a situation where the hotel says they do not have a card on file,  (which will be much more of a rare occurrence with Navan) you will be able to pull up the credit card attached to the booking and instantly send it to the hotel.  Please watch out for further updates from the company as more functionality is added.
Rental cars continue to be a top question.  Rental cars are not guaranteed by the CBA.  If you are on a charter that has a rental car it will show up in the Navan app.  If not, then that charter does not require a rental car for the crews.  The continuing multi-day pairings for scheduled service will not include rental cars.
The company has informed the committee that the issues of rooms being cancelled for the PUJ crews with early arrivals into PUJ has been resolved and should not happen again. Please continue to reach out to the committee if you have issues in PUJ.  If you are booked into a hotel that is not in the below list and you have questions, please reach out to the committee.
Inspected PUJ Hotels
  • 4 Points Airport
  • Westin Airport
  • Live Aqua
  • Royalton/Royalton Splash
PUJ Hotels on the Do Not Book list:
  • AC by Marriot
  • Occidental
Please reach out to the committee with any other issues.

Fraternally,
Your Hotel Committee