It appears American Airlines may be starting to have problems with their pilot relationship again. The rhetoric hasn’t reached nuclear yet, but I’m thinking it may be getting close to the point where I’ll need to grab some popcorn.
There’s some more news in the never-ending saga of the TWA pilots to sue pretty much everyone, everywhere for their losses.
With virtually all of the pilots participating in the vote, the union has approved the contract offer from management by a margin of almost 2:1. Initial reaction from the union after receiving 23% raises immediately, retroactive to December, an additional 3% increase retroactive to…
Is labor peace finally at hand for Doug Parker’s management team after 8+ years?
There are thousands of mundane steps to merge two airlines the size of American Airlines and US Airways. While that process is well underway, we’re still well over a year away from completion and probably close to a year before more substantial customer-facing pieces are in…
After 6 years of bickering, the US Airways pilots’ union wants to fight just a bit more. They’ve sued US Airways, American Airlines and the Allied Pilots Association to force binding arbitration to determine pilot seniority, even though they didn’t agree with the last binding arbitration.
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Wandering Aramean reports that United has joined the club in shutting off aggregation sites like Award Wallet. Just more piling on for some of my favorite services. Award Wallet is a big part of being able to manage all the different accounts our family…
The New York Times is reporting that AA’s pilots union has voted in favor of a new contract. This wasn’t a huge surprise, but I don’t know that there’s anything that would surprise me with airlines and unions anymore. The reported tally was 74%…
Bankruptcy has been tough for all the legacy airlines to navigate. American has had it’s fair share of troubles to this point, but I didn’t think things would get even worse so quickly. Again, it’s the pilots. Scott McCartney of the Wall Street Journal,…