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☆ FAA system outage disrupts thousands of flights across U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
The FAA's outage was the second major air travel disruption in less than a month and drew bipartisan criticism. Later Wednesday, Canada's air navigation agency said its similar notification system experienced a brief outage, but said no flights were delayed as a result. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards FAA system failure created mass cancellations across the U.S. on Jan. 11th, 2023. FlightawareWednesday's FAA issue added to concern from Washington from both Republicans and Democrats, particularly about technology that the complex U.S. air system, the world's busiest, relies on. More than a third of Delta's and United's mainline flights were delayed, while about 50% of American's were running late.
☆ Airlines are prepared for the busy holiday travel season, says flight attendants union leader
  + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAirlines are prepared for the busy holiday travel season, says flight attendants union leaderSara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants, joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss how prepared airlines are for the holiday travel season. Nelson also weighs in on the union negotiations between airlines and pilots.
☆ The 'pro-union' president risks the support of a key constituency to avert a rail strike
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Eli M. Rosenberg | Peter Nicholas | Eli Rosenberg Is An Investigative Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
Now Biden faces a backlash from a core of rail workers and allied groups, as some of them see a betrayal in the bill he pushed to avert a rail strike. The standoff between rail workers and the profitable companies that employ them posed an awkward dilemma for Biden, forcing him to find an elusive middle ground between dueling campaign pledges. A rail strike threatened to unravel the job gains that no doubt will be central to any Biden re-election campaign. He said he is not giving up on paid sick leave for rail workers and other Americans who don’t receive such benefits. …”Still, the president could have used more leverage to reach a deal that included paid sick leave, union officials and allies contend.
☆ Lawmakers, unions press U.S. airlines to hold off on stock buybacks
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
REUTERS/Nick Oxford/FilesSept 28 (Reuters) - Labor unions and some U.S. lawmakers are pressing airlines not to resume stock buybacks after a COVID assistance prohibition expires this week. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterAviation unions launched a campaign in August to pressure airlines against stock buybacks. Airlines for America, a trade group, said airlines are in full compliance with the payroll assistance program. American Airlines (AAL.O) received $12.6 billion, Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) $11.9 billion, United Airlines (UAL.O) $10.9 billion and Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) $7.2 billion. Out of $54 billion, airlines must repay $14 billion, or 26.2% of the funding.
☆ Southwest Airlines hired a record 3,000 flight attendants so far this year
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Passengers deplane from a Southwest Airlines flight from Las Vegas at Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, California, Oct. 10, 2021. Southwest Airlines has hired and trained 3,000 flight attendants so far this year, nearly triple its record cabin crew member hiring in all of 2018, the carrier told staff last week. The carrier told staff that it has 7,000 flight attendants in its hiring pipeline and that its attrition rate among new cabin crew members has dropped to 2.5% compared with 6.1% in 2019. The hiring spree comes as Southwest flight attendants' union and management have been locked in contract negotiations. Southwest and United Airlines flight attendants, which are represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, are set to picket at major airports on Tuesday to demand better working conditions.
☆ JetBlue ground operations workers seek union vote, major labor group says
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
A major airline union said Friday that it has enough support among JetBlue Airways' roughly 3,000 fleet service staff to seek a unionization vote, in the latest move to organize workers. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said it will file an application for a union vote with the National Mediation Board. A vote could create the third major work group at the New York-based airline to unionize. "The IAM has sufficient interest among JetBlue Fleet Service workers to conduct a union representation election," the union said in a statement. Most major airline workers are already largely represented by unions, though some carriers like JetBlue are less so than some competitors.
☆ Flight attendants union blasts Spirit Airlines' pay proposal as insulting, says workers would make 'far below' JetBlue
  + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Spirit Airlines' flight attendants union is currently in contract negotiations. In April, Spirit flight attendants around the US picketed after the airline canceled flights. Spirit Airlines flight attendants in Orlando, Dallas, and Las Vegas picketed in April after the airline cancelled over 30% of its flights because of weather, which left flight attendants stranded. The flight attendants union and Spirit Airlines management will be back in negotiations on September 27. "Spirit Flight Attendants have been through it over the last several years," Spirit AFA president Jason Kachenmeister told Insider in a statement.
☆ Airline unions urge carriers not to resume buybacks when bailout ban ends this fall
  + stars: | 2022-08-18 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +4 min
A United Airlines flight crew walks through the terminal at San Francisco International Airport on April 12, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Labor unions don't want them to spend it on stock buybacks. A condition of the $54 billion in federal aid that airlines received to pay workers during the Covid pandemic prohibited carriers from share buybacks. Many of the workers represented by the unions advocating against a resumption of buybacks are in contract negotiations with their carriers. She estimated that the earliest that airlines would resume would be mid-2023, with Alaska Airlines and Southwest the most likely candidates among U.S. carriers.
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