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Articles tagged “pilots”

Airlines

Airlines want FAA to rethink new higher-training pilot rules

The answer can't be either or, right? The mandatory training and hours requirement is too low now, but the FAA limit is going to completely break the back of the current system. There has to be an in-between answer.

Skift | 11 years ago

Airlines

Four in ten British pilots admit they’ve fallen asleep while in control of an aircraft

The new findings will be used to pressure the EU into implementing stricter scheduling regulations, a move that airlines will fight as it means paying more pilots for fewer hours.

The Daily Telegraph | 11 years ago

Four in ten British pilots admit they’ve fallen asleep while in control of an aircraft

Airlines

U.S. airlines are about to have a massive problem hiring enough pilots to fill their ranks

A change in FAA regulations will raise the barriers of entry to commercial flying right at time when there are significantly fewer applicants. Flights to small towns will be the first on the chopping block.

Skift | 11 years ago

U.S. airlines are about to have a massive problem hiring enough pilots to fill their ranks

Airlines

American Airlines and pilots union in tentative contract deal

This deal, if ratified by the pilots' union membership, is big and could impact American Airlines' fate as a merger partner or standalone carrier post-bankruptcy

D.R. Stewart, Tulsa World | 12 years ago

Airlines

U.S. airlines push back on additional safety regulations, cite long streak of good news

Airlines focused on their immediate bottom lines are against safety rules that limit pilot’s flying time or extend training, perhaps forgetting that the fall out from one crash lasts longer than just one quarter.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

Airlines

It’s no surprise that Kingfisher is extending its lockout past October 20 deadline

The striking employees relayed mixed signals on the process of meetings with management, but Kingfisher’s problems aren’t close to over even if employees are paid withheld salaries and return to work.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

No one wants to be a pilot anymore

The thrill is gone, in this hyper-sanitized, hyper-paranoid world. Something like that.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

Robert Crandall lectures American Airlines pilots on the future

Once a management guy, always a management guy. Robert Crandall's view of labor-management relations at American Airlines would make sense if elephants could fly.

Skift | 12 years ago

Airlines

There’s something suspicious about American’s spike in flight cancellations

There’s (unproven) buzz that pilots, outraged over the airline’s cost-cutting decisions and without the legal right to strike, are engaged in an unofficial sickout that caused 57 cancellations Monday afternoon.

Andrea Ahles, Fort Worth Star-Telegram | 12 years ago

There’s something suspicious about American’s spike in flight cancellations

Airlines

American Airlines pilots are shocked at airlines’ comprehensive cost cuts

American wasted no time in initiating sweeping cost-cutting changes including increased hours and frozen pensions for pilots and relaxed code-sharing restrictions to outsource flights.

Skift | 12 years ago

American Airlines pilots are shocked at airlines’ comprehensive cost cuts