Continental and United pilots are just a few steps away from erasing the line that separates them
Skift Take
US Airways and American take heed: after two years of negotiations, the 12,000 pilots are the first labor group of the merged United line to agree in principle to a new contract.
After red-eye negotiations, United Airlines and its pilots arrived at an agreement for a single union contract that would bring them together under the carrier created when United and Continental Airlines merged two years ago.
The deal reached early Thursday and announced Friday morning, which the union described as an agreement in principle, still must be drafted into a tentative agreement and is subject to approval by leaders of both union chapters and ratification by about 12,000 pilots.
The union said details won't be released until the tentative agreement is complete.
Separate units of the Air Line Pilots Association represent pilots from the pre-merger United and Continental, and flight crews have flown
