on Wednesday announced it reached terms on a contract with its maintenance controllers.
The collective bargaining agreement, struck between Frontier and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Local 455 Airline Division, is the maintenance controller group’s first with the airline. It is in place for five years, according to a news release.
“We would like to recognize the efforts of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the National Mediation Board in helping us come together on a deal that benefits everyone and ensures security for the future,” Gary Appling, Frontier’s vice president of technical operations, said in a statement.
The contract is the fifth Frontier has reached with different segments of its workforce in the last two years, the airline said. Since December 2016 it has finalized agreements with its aircraft appearance agents, material specialists, ground service equipment technicians and tool room attendants and aircraft dispatchers.
The airline has not reached a new agreement with its pilots after two years of negotiations. That negotiation, now being overseen by a , has prompted the members of Frontier’s unit of the Air Line Pilots Association to threaten a strike if a new deal cannot be reached.
