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Ongoing travel demand and an airline industry grappling with staffing shortages adds leverage to contract negotiations for American Airlines flight attendants.
Reuters | 3 months ago
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The Biden administration is extending the mandatory rest times for flight attendants to 10 hours, implementing a rule that Congress passed four years ago. U.S. airlines must implement the new cabin crew rest period, which is currently eight hours, within 90 days under the rule signed by Federal Aviation Administration Acting Administrator Billy Nolen on…
Edward Russell | 1 year ago
United, and a lot of other U.S.-based airlines didn't permit onboard booze purchases during most of the pandemic, but that's changed and the airline is now even enabling passengers on certain U.S. domestic flights to order snacks and drinks up to five days before their trips. United is enabling preordering of Bacardi Rum, although not…
Dennis Schaal | 1 year ago
Are flight crews sometimes the last to know about cancellations? Veteran flight attendant Kristie Koerbel's tips for travelers on navigating the current travel chaos and cancellations, as published in The New York Times, also had some interesting tidbits about the airline industry as a business. Shown here, a Delta flight attendant offers complimentary welcome Bellini…
Delta will pay flight attendants for boarding time in what it claims is a move to improve reliability. But the additional pay comes as the largest flight attendant union tries to organize crews amid a national rise in organized labor.
Edward Russell | 2 years ago
Here come the holidays and crowded planes. Expect the numbers of violent incidents on board to jump even more before we clock out of 2021. Congress now wants flight crews trained to deal with the growing number of unruly flyers.
David Shepardson, Reuters | 2 years ago
There were naysayers after 9/11 that said people would never fly again in droves out of security concerns, and now Covid and its variant joint-venture partners have rocked the travel industry. History has shown, however, that "travel" and the human spirit are indomitable.
Dennis Schaal, Skift | 2 years ago
Despite suffering the most from unruly passengers, flight attendants are applauding the extension of the mask mandate.
Ruthy Muñoz, Skift | 2 years ago
Airline Weekly
2 years ago
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Nearly a year into the pandemic, the world's airlines are still trying to find their footing as historically low numbers of travelers take to the skies. Is vaccinating crews and then making it part of an airline's marketing message one way to jumpstart a travel rebound?
Ruthy Muñoz, Skift | 3 years ago
