United Airlines flight attendants have been granted a new contract that will increase their wages by 31% this summer.
Date: May 23, 2026Views:
United Airlines flight attendants have approved a new five-year labor contract that includes an average 31% increase in base pay by August, along with other improvements. This marks the last major airline to reach an agreement with unionized flight attendants since the COVID-19 pandemic, and now the airline has joined a union.
This labor agreement will give approximately 30,000 United Airlines flight attendants their first pay rise in nearly six years. The company and the flight attendants' union reached a preliminary agreement in March of this year. Previously, the crew had rejected a contract from last year.
The union stated that the contract received 82% approval from flight attendants, with a voter turnout approaching 90%.
“This contract will immediately change the lives of United Airlines flight attendants, especially the thousands of new flight attendants we’ve hired since the outbreak of the pandemic,” said Ken Diaz, president of the United Airlines chapter of the Association of Flight Attendants.
The contract also includes a boarding allowance, a payment made when the aircraft doors open and passengers board. For years, airlines have only calculated flight attendants' wages after the doors close.
The contract includes a 7% to 8% pay rise and $741 million in back pay, as well as improvements to quality of life, such as restrictions on red-eye flights and "waiting pay" for flight disruptions exceeding 2.5 hours.
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