American Airlines-US Airways hearing: Written testimony from APA, APFA leaders
We have statements from the Allied Pilots Association and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, two American Airlines unions that both support the merger of US Airways and American. These...
View ArticleUS Airways flight attendants ratify new contract on third try
US Airways flight attendants have finally adopted a single contract that covers both pre-merger America West Airlines and US Airways flight attendants, nearly 7½ years after the two carriers merged in...
View ArticleFlight attendants launch attack against relaxed carry-on rules
The Flight Attendants Union Coalition is launching a battle to get the Transportation Security Administration to back down from its plans to loosen up the carry-on rules April 25. The new rules will...
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AA, US Airways unions offer joint statement in favor of merger
Five unions at American Airlines and US Airways filed a statement of support Tuesday the US Airways and American merger. They sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee and Sen. Amy Klobucher,...
View ArticleFamily of 9/11 victim criticizes TSA plans to allow knives on flights
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has released a Thursday letter from Mike Low, father of American Airlines flight attendant Sara Elizabeth Low, opposing the Transportation Security...
View ArticleJudge approves disclosure statement, AMR creditors to begin voting on plan of...
We’re not in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York, but others were. Therefore, we know that U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane on Tuesday morning approved the disclosure statement for AMR’s proposed plan of...
View ArticleTSA backs down, will keep knife ban on airline flights
The Transportation Security Administration has decided not to allow small knives onto airline flights, backing away from its original intent to relax its carry-on rules. The decision had raised loud...
View ArticleUnion for American Airlines flight attendants is urging members to contact AGs
In a hotline message to members, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants encouraged members to contact Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and the other state attorneys general and ask them...
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Arizona AG stands firm on antitrust lawsuit, while American Airlines flight...
On Tuesday, the day that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott pulled Texas out of the airline antitrust lawsuit, Arizona AG Tom Horne said Arizona was staying in. Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne...
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APFA leans on another AG to give up the American Airlines-US Airways lawsuit
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents American Airlines flight attendants, is pushing another state attorney general to withdraw from a lawsuit that seeks to block...
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Judge sets clock ticking on TWU intervention request in American Airlines-US...
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is giving the Transport Workers Union until 6 p.m. EDT Monday, or 5 p.m. CDT, to correct its request to intervene in the antitrust lawsuit aimed at American...
View ArticleUnions ask permission to file brief in US Airways-American Airlines antitrust...
Unions representing American Airlines pilots, American and US Airways flight attendants and US Airways ground workers asked U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to let them file a brief in the...
View ArticleAMR creditors committee wants to be a friend of the court, too
This American Airlines-US Airways lawsuit is getting awfully friendly. The Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors filed its own request Monday for permission to file an amicus curiae brief in favor...
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Judge finalizes calendar, approves various ‘friends’ requests in American...
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a number of orders Wednesday after the morning’s status conference, including: U.S. Dsitrict Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly – She approved Oneworld’s...
View ArticleUS Airways pilot union adds its name to the ‘friends’ list in American...
We haven’t heard from the US Airline Pilots Association in recent weeks as other US Airways and American Airlines unions asked permission to file amici curiae (friends of the court) briefs in support...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines and US Airways oppose a separate filing by US Airways pilots
American Airlines and US Airways said Tuesday they oppose a separate brief from the US Airline Pilots Association in their antitrust case. USAPA, which represents US Airways pilots, last week asked...
View ArticleJudge lets US Airways pilot union file its own brief (but don’t be redundant)
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly told the US Airline Pilots Association on Tuesday that it can file its own brief in support of the US Airways-American Airlines merger. But she put a lot of...
View ArticleFlight attendant unions at American Airlines and US Airways are in open battle
The unions representing flight attendant at American Airlines and US Airways are not united. In a letter to members Wednesday, Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Laura Glading...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines unions urge judge to approve settlement, let merger happen
The three unions at American Airlines asked U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane to approve the settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and American Airlines and US Airways. And approve it soon,...
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Today is the 20th anniversary of the end of the APFA strike
On this day in 1993, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants ended their strike against American Airlines after President Clinton stepped in to ask both sides to resume talks. Five years...
View ArticleFlight attendant unions at new American Airlines reach deal on who’ll...
The two recently quarreling unions that represent flight attendants at the new American Airlines have an agreement that lays who will represent those employees as American merges with US Airways. The...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines Group and its American and US Airways flight attendants...
We don’t have details, but the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA have a deal between themselves and with American Airlines Group on how they’ll...
View ArticleAFA members at US Airways will be asked to join APFA as flight attendants...
There appears to be two key parts of the deal struck among American Airlines, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. According to some details...
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American Airlines museum to display flight attendant wings, APFA pin from...
This set of flight attendant wings and union pin were taken from the wreckage of American Airlines Flight 77 in the Pentagon. (G.J. McCarthy/Dallas Morning News)visit site to read more]
View ArticleUS Airways flight attendants OK agreement with American Airlines union
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said Friday that US Airways flight attendants approved an agreement on how it and American’s flight attendant union will bargain for a combined contract....
View ArticleParker: Biggest opportunity for new American Airlines is through better...
American Airlines Group CEO Doug Parker said Monday that the “biggest opportunity” for the new American Airlines management is to work better with its employees. Parker, speaking to a J.P. Morgan...
View ArticleEx-TWA flight attendants sue American Airlines, Association of Professional...
American Airlines flight attendants who came from Trans World Airlines are suing American Airlines and their current union, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, over seniority. The...
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NMB agrees with flight attendants that American Airlines and US Airways are...
The National Mediation Board concluded Tuesday that American Airlines and US Airways are a “single transportation system,” as requested by the flight attendant unions of the two carriers. The next...
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Mechanics and other ground workers ask NMB to declare American Airlines and...
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View ArticleIt’s that day again — Sept. 11
I was born in early 1952, more than 10 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor and in the middle of the Korean War. They were only events in history by the time I became aware of the past. My first big...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines passenger service agents vote for union representation
American Airlines passenger service agents have voted to be represented by a coalition of the Communications Workers of America and International Brotherhood of Teamsters. AA’s agents, who staff the...
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Union sends proposed contract to American Airlines flight attendants for a vote
American Airlines flight attendants will have a chance soon to vote on a new contract that its union says is the best in the industry. The executive committee of … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleIt’s Labor Day – a collection of labor news from airlines
There have been some news items involving airlines and their unions, so let’s put them together in one item. Upset American Airlines flight attendants start petition drive to recall their president...
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APFA tells American Airlines and US Airways flight attendants: This is as...
As it so happens, I’ve received several emails today from American Airlines flight attendants who are unhappy with the tentative agreement upon which they are voting. Then, this … [visit site to read...
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Flight attendants reject new American Airlines contract by 16 votes
US Airways and American Airlines pass each other at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in this April photo. (Terry Maxon/DMN)visit site to read more]
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American Airlines flight attendants opposed new contract, while US Airways...
An American Airlines jet takes off last month at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. (Photo: Terry Maxon/DMN) We’ve taken a quick look … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleGlading: I’m devastated, but now let’s start preparing our arbitration case
Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Laura Glading told flight attendants Sunday that she was “devastated” by the narrow loss of the proposed contract, but that it’s now time to...
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We talk more about the rejection of the flight attendant contract at American...
Since we on Monday posted 10 possible reasons that Association of Professional Flight Attendants members voted against a tentative agreement, we’ve received a handful of emails … [visit site to read...
View ArticleAPFA: We’ll meet with American Airlines next week, but it won’t be negotiations
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants put out this hotline Tuesday night, and seems to be designed to squelch any rumors that the union and American Airlines will reopen contract talks in...
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Union president repeats: American Airlines says it won’t give us anything more
Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Laura Glading told members Thursday that American Airlines appears firm that it won’t negotiate for a better contract for flight attendants....
View ArticleAmerican Airlines says nope on APA contract proposal, but agrees to pull...
UPDATE, 7 p.m.: The Allied Pilots Association has put out a hotline that confirmed that American Airlines said no to the APA contract proposal, but pulled the “scope” changes that the union had...
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Analyst predicts a pilot deal at American Airlines by mid-December
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Flight attendants protest over contract in front of American Airlines...
(Terry Maxon/DMN)Flight attendants line up to protest their contract near American Airlines headquarters in Fort Worth.visit site to read more]
View ArticleAPFA, American Airlines disagree on three items, they tell arbitration board
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants and American Airlines disagree on three items that the arbiters will have to decide, according to a joint stipulation submitted Wednesday to the...
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Here’s a rough transcript of the first day of American Airlines-APFA...
We’re not in attendance, but the Association of Professional Flight Attendants has posted a running account of Wednesday’s testimony in the first day of its arbitration hearings with American...
View ArticleGlading to Parker: Please give American Airlines flight attendants the other...
Association of Professional Flight Attendants president Laura Glading has sent a letter to American Airlines chairman and CEO Doug Parker asking for a meeting, with the intent to ask for the full $193...
View ArticleArbitration board issues decision on joint contract covering American...
American Airlines and Association of Professional Flight Attendants said Saturday that the board of arbitration issued its final decision that establishes the joint contract covering American and US...
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APFA: American Airlines may give flight attendants the pay raises they turned...
The flight attendants of American Airlines may wind up getting the bigger … [visit site to read more]
View ArticlePilot union gives American Airlines a ‘comprehensive counterproposal’
The Allied Pilots Association gave American Airlines management a new contract proposal Wednesday in response to the carrier’s November contract proposal. “In an effort to conclude the joint...
View ArticleWe have sketchy updates on American Airlines pilot and flight attendant...
Here are our latest updates on what’s happening with American Airlines and its contracts with its pilots and flight attendants. We’re afraid we have conclusions on neither. First, the flight...
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