CWA-AFA · GoJet Airlines

Agreement Metadata

This page analyzes the Tentative Agreement reached between GoJet Airlines and Flight Attendants represented by CWA-AFA. The agreement reflects a renegotiated successor contract to the prior 2020–2025 agreement and incorporates revised economic terms, updated scheduling language, and new Letters of Agreement.

Contract Architecture Overview

The GoJet Tentative Agreement is a classic regional-carrier systems contract: highly procedural, definition-driven, and organized around formal scheduling logic (PBS), reserve structures, and explicit management rights with negotiated carve-outs.

Compared to many legacy agreements, the contract is internally consistent and readable, but enforcement depends heavily on correct classification (reserve vs lineholder, extension vs junior assignment, reassignment vs cancellation) and on documentation retained through Company systems.

Scheduling & Assignment Framework

Scheduling is built around PBS with defined bid timelines, minimum days off, reserve availability periods (RAPs), and a structured order of assignment. The agreement codifies junior assignment, extensions, premium pay trips, and Golden Days as distinct mechanisms rather than informal practices.

A notable structural feature is transparency: Union access to Crew Management systems and recorded scheduling calls materially strengthens auditability, particularly for disputes involving rescheduling, reserve utilization, and reassignment pay.

Economic Structure

The TA introduces revised hourly pay rates effective August 16, 2025 with scheduled increases through 2029, alongside a seventy-five (75) hour monthly guarantee, minimum day pay, CDO credit, boarding pay (with conditional implementation), and multiple premium pay triggers.

Pay architecture is moderately complex but coherent: most premiums are paid above guarantee, and reschedule/reassignment pay is calculated on a trip-by-trip basis, reducing fragmentation in pay disputes.

Enforcement & Dispute Resolution Architecture

Enforcement provisions are comprehensive for a regional agreement, including just-cause discipline standards, defined grievance timelines, and a System Board of Adjustment with a standing arbitrator panel.

As with many CWA-AFA regional contracts, remedies remain largely retrospective, but the availability of recorded evidence and structured escalation pathways improves practical enforceability relative to thinner agreements.

Structural Strengths, Weaknesses & Comparative Flags

The GoJet TA’s primary strengths are clarity, internal consistency, and a relatively complete enforcement framework. It establishes predictable scheduling rails and economic outcomes while avoiding extreme fragmentation.

The principal weaknesses are familiar: broad management rights language, process-dependent protections, and limited forward-looking remedies during irregular operations.

Standardized Contract Scorecard

This agreement is a Tentative Agreement pending ratification. Comparative scoring will be published following ratification and confirmation of the final, effective collective bargaining agreement.

Context Notes

GoJet serves as a useful comparator for other regional CWA-AFA agreements, particularly in assessing first-order improvements achieved through successor bargaining versus legacy stagnation at larger carriers.