Friday, April 29, 2005 | 9:56 a.m.
HONOLULU -- Hawaiian Airlines and its pilots union have reached a new tentative labor agreement, a month after the union rejected a previous deal, citing changes to retirement benefits and rising medical costs, officials said Thursday.
Terms of the tentative agreement between Hawaiian and the Air Line Pilots Association were not immediately disclosed. But Capt. Jim Giddings, the Hawaiian pilots' lead negotiator, said the tentative three-year agreement contains pay raises of 1 percent each year for three years. The contract covers the period from June 30 last year, when the previous contract expired, to June 30, 2007, he said.
The union will vote on the proposal, starting early next week, through May 10.
The pilots are the last of Hawaiian's six labor unions to ratify a new contract.
The airline's parent, Hawaiian Holdings Inc., needs the new pilots contract to complete its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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