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- Are the Airbus A380s Too Quiet?
- A jet that's too quiet? It seems oxymoronic, but that's what pilots for Emirates airline are saying about their new A380s. Pilots are complaining that they can't get any sleep on long flights because Airbus designers did too good a job blocking out engine noise inside the airplane. As a...
- Blog posts 2008-12-30
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- FAA Revokes Northwest Pilots Licenses
- The FAA has now revoked the licenses of two Northwest Airlines pilots who overflew their destination airport Oct. 21, saying the broke several federal aviation regulations. The pilots of Flight 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis were out of contact with air traffic controllers for more than one hour, and...
- News items 2009-10-27
- The decision will do away with the FedEx Pilots Association. (Briefs).(Brief Article)
- FedEx pilots voted in early April to leave their independent union and join the Air Line Pilots Association, after rejecting the ALPA in 1996. The decision will do away with the FedEx Pilots ... FedEx pilots voted in early April to leave their independent union...
- Research articles 2002-05-16
- Pilots Push Congress on Arming Pilots Bill; Growing Momentum Prompts Senate Vote, White House Maneuvers
- FT. WORTH, Texas, Sept. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Allied Pilots Association APA, the pilots' union of 14,500 American Airlines pilots (NYSE: AMR), praised Senator Bob Smith, Senator Barbara Boxer and Senator Harry Reid for offering an amendment to the HoFT. WORTH, Texas, Sept. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Allied...
- Research articles 2002-09-05
- Statement by Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations Chairman On Pilot Flight Time/Duty Time - CAPA
- Business Editors FORT WORTH, Texas--BUSINESS WIRE--May 24, 2001 Pilots representing nearly every U.S. airline met in Washington, D.C. on May 23-24 to discuss the ongoing threat to aviation safety posed by the Federal Aviation Administration's delay in producing new flight time/duty time regulations. Present were pilots from...
- Research articles 2001-05-24
- ABC airing angers airline pilots: News magazine plays traffic-control tape of hijacked plane. (TOP OF THE WEEK).(Brief Article)
- ABC was criticized by a pilots group last week for airing a tape of pilots' final moments on United Flight 93, which was hijacked and crashed in Pennsylvania Sept. 11. The head of the Air Line Pilots Association said the group's ...
- Research articles 2001-11-26
- FEDEX PILOTS OFFERED ADDITIONAL DC PLAN.
- MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The proposed pilots' contract at Federal Express includes establishing a participant-directed defined contribution plan. If the 3,500 pilots in the independent Federal Express Pilots Association ratify the proposed agreement in Fe MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The proposed pilots' contract at Federal...
- Research articles 1998-12-28
- Southwest Pilots Envious of United Airlines Pact.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- Nov. 16--A lucrative new labor contract between United Airlines Inc. and its pilots is arousing wage envy among Southwest Airlines pilots whose 10-year contract doesn't become amendable until 2004, the head of the Southwest pilots union said in a rec Nov. 16--A lucrative new labor contract...
- Research articles 2000-11-16
- Coalition of Airline Pilots Association Calls on Congress to Include Cargo Pilots in the Federal Flight Deck Program
- WASHINGTON, March 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Captain Jon Safley, president of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association CAPA, which represents more than 21,000 pilots, called on Congress to immediately enact legislation that will insure that cargo pilots arWASHINGTON, March 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Captain Jon Safley, president of the Coalition...
- Research articles 2003-03-04
- Delta deal pits current pilots and retired pilots
- ATLANTA -- Delta Air Lines Inc.'s pilots union said Wednesday it would oppose an effort by some retired pilots to block the union's wage concession deal with the bankrupt carrier. The Air Line Pilots Association, which represents Delta's 5,930 active pilots, said in a statement that the agreement...
- Research articles 2006-05-25
- Pilots Union at TWA to Ask for Denial of Request by American's Pilots.
- By Cynthia Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 9--The pilots union at St. Louis-based TWA Airlines LLC will ask the National Mediation Board on Thursday to deny a request from the pilots union at American Airlines to declare the carriers a...
- Research articles 2002-01-09
- Pilots Praise Passage of House Bill to Arm Pilots
- FORT WORTH, July 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Allied Pilots Association APA, the pilots' union of 14,500 American Airlines pilots (NYSE: AMR), praised members of the U.S. House of Representatives for their recognition of the need to arm America's pilots with lethal weapons through the bi-partisan legislation passed by an...
- Research articles 2002-07-10
- 'Age 65' Rule Riles Some Veteran Pilots
- A coalition of the U.S. senior airline pilots are challenging the new federal law that allows veteran pilots to continue flying commercial transports until they reach 65. The Senior Pilots Coalition charges that the Fair Treatment for Experienced Pilots Act, enacted in late 2007, discriminates on...
- Research articles 2008-02-04
- Alaska Airlines Settles Pay for Pilots, Execs
- The union for Alaska Airlines' pilots has approved a contract that restores much of the pay cuts imposed on them in 2005, thus ending a long and often-contentious bargaining process. Separately, shareholders of the airline's parent company have approved the pay structure for senior executives in one of corporate America's early "say...
- Blog posts 2009-05-20
- Delta signals that Northwest pilots are going to lose jobs
- Delta Air Lines, which owns and operates Northwest Airlines by virtue of last year's merger, pretty much said that the pilots who flew past Minneapolis-St. Paul last Wednesday are going to lose their jobs. Late Monday afternoon, Delta issued a statement about the Northwest Flight 188 after...
- News items 2009-10-26
- NWA Makes Deal With Pilots to Decrease Flight Cancellations
- Northwest Airlines has reached a tentative agreement with its pilots, addressing the post-bankruptcy staffing issues that resulted in excessive flight cancellations and many unhappy customers. Effective August 1, the deal gives pilots time-and-a-half for monthly hours beyond 80 (which had recently been increased to 90) and rewards them with a...
- Blog posts 2007-08-02
- UPS, pilots' union to resume talks under auspices of federal mediator. (United Parcel Service; Independent Pilots Association; Arthur Stark)
- UPS, pilots' union to resume talks under auspices of federal mediator LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A federal mediator begins his third round of meetings this week between United Parcel Service and the company's 1,250-member pilots' union in an effort to negotiUPS, pilots' union to resume...
- Research articles 1991-05-20
- UPS, pilots' union hold informal talks. (United Parcel Service; Independent Pilots Association)
- UPS, pilots' union hold informal talks GREENWICH, Conn. - Pending the resumption of meetings later this month with a federal mediator, representatives of United Parcel Service and the company's 1,250-member pilots' union are meeting informally in anUPS, pilots' union hold informal talks ...
- Research articles 1991-06-17
- Pilots' union approves plans to pay COBRA costs of laid-off colleagues.(Brief Article)
- Hundreds of the nation's commercial airline pilots who have been furloughed in the wake of the dramatic slowdown in air travel are finding the going smoother in the health insurance market-thanks to the generosity of their fellow pilots. Pilots re Hundreds of the...
- Research articles 2002-01-28
- United makes peace with pilots.(United Air Lines Inc.)(Brief Article)
- After a harrowing summer, United Airlines finally reached a pact with its pilots union. The new contract includes immediate pay raises of 21.5% for pilots flying narrow-body airplanes, or models up through Boeing 767s, and 28.5% for pilots flying wid After a harrowing summer, United Airlines...
- Research articles 2000-09-04
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