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Pilots Union Sues American Airlines Over Training Practices

American Airlines and its pilots union are at odds over what the union alleges are illegal changes to the carrier's training practices. The suit comes as airlines prepare for a busy summer travel season that many fear staffing shortages could disrupt.

2 years ago

Travel Agents

Daily Podcast: An Unhealthy Cruise Dependency

Good morning from Skift. It's Tuesday, January 18, in New York City. Here's what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Rashaad Jorden | 2 years ago

Airlines

UK Opens Travel and 9 Other Top Travel Stories This Week

In Skift’s top stories this week, the UK opens up more non-essential travel, Reserve with Google is ending, Hawaii's residents say tourism is worth its troubles and American Airlines sues Sabre — again.

Angel Adegbesan, Skift | 3 years ago

Airlines

American Airlines Union Dispute More Disruptive Than 737 Max Grounding

Big U.S. airlines have erased most of the ghosts from their past. They don't engage in many market share battles or fare wars anymore. They don't dump capacity. But they still have labor disputes with their unions. And those can be as disastrous to operations today as they were two or three decades ago.

Brian Sumers, Skift | 5 years ago

Airlines

American Airlines CEO Rejects Criticism of ‘Unprecedented’ Flight Crew Pay Hikes

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker is playing the long game. Surprise pay hikes for pilots and flight attendants will cost roughly $350 million in 2018 and 2019. But if airlines truly want to avoid more customer service-related dramas, one way to get there is to adequately compensate your workforce.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 7 years ago

Airlines

American Airlines’ CEO Can’t Escape a Quote by Southwest Air’s Co-Founder

American Airlines Group CEO sounds as though he has turned into a labor activist. OK, not really, but he knows you can't have a successful company unless its corporate culture is healthy and its employees have a real stake in its well-being.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 8 years ago

Airlines

Labor Unions and U.S. Airlines Set Aside Differences to Attack Gulf Carriers

The selective outrage is cynical at best.

Jason Clampet, Skift | 9 years ago

Airlines

American and Delta lead U.S. airlines in slashing jobs

The big shocker in all this is the employment picture at United Airlines, where employment levels were up a bit. One would have expected large job cuts after the merger with Continental.

David Koenig, Associated Press | 11 years ago

Airlines

American Airlines retirees’ poignant letters to court on their benefits post-merger

Rafat Ali, Skift | 11 years ago

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American Airlines and US Airways workers fret the details

The bigwigs have decided the merger terms, but now American Airlines and US Airways unions will jockey over its ramifications on the ground.

Kyle Arnold , Tulsa World | 11 years ago