Labor Relations
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United’s Operation Improves While American’s Falls Off a Cliff
Just over a month ago, I profiled United’s poor operational performance and how it wasn’t getting better. My, how times have changed.…
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Southwest’s Looming Labor Fight
Unlike any other large airline in the US, Southwest has had an incredible streak of good labor relations. Despite being highly unionized,…
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Delta to Shrink Its Fleet of Small Jets, Significantly Improve Customer Experience with New Pilot Agreement
This week, Delta accomplished something incredibly rare… it came to a new tentative agreement with its pilots 7 months BEFORE the contract…
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American’s New Business Plan Looks a Lot Like the Old One But With a Lot More Outsourcing
February 1 was a big day at American. It was the day that the airline went over its (not really) new and…
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New Pilot Rest Rules May Be Good, but Cargo Pilots and Small Cities Should be Worried
Toward the end of the year, the FAA announced the final rule regarding changes in pilot rest requirements. [Read the entire final…
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Qantas Goes NBA, Locks Out Employees and Shuts Down Over the Weekend
When you think about airline labor disputes, you probably think about strikes. After years and years of negotiating, the unions gain the…
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Topic of the Week: US Airways Gets a Preliminary Injunction Against Its Pilots Union (and a Bonus)
Earlier this week, US Airways finally got the preliminary injunction it had asked for against its pilots related to the operational disruption…
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US Airways Finds No Issues on the Flight Featured in Union Safety Complaint Ad
Remember that ad the US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) took out in USA Today claiming that US Airways was unsafe? There was…
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US Airways Sues Pilots Union to Stop Illegal Slowdown Effort
Man, I really should have waited another day before writing that US Airways pilots union (USAPA) piece last week. Why? On Friday,…
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US Airways Pilots Union Earns a Long Overdue Cranky Jackass Award For Using Safety as a Negotiation Tactic
I’ve written many times about the US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA), and it’s never been in a good light. This week, the…
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UNITE HERE Strikes Back: Tries to Cover Bad Analysis By Insulting Cranky, Earns the Jackass
If you decide to put out bad analysis, as UNITE HERE did last week regarding Lufthansa complaints, and someone calls you on…
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When Statistics Attack: Union Report on Lufthansa Complaint “Spike” is Simply Misleading
One thing that’s certain is that you can make statistics say pretty much whatever you want to get your point across. That’s…