American Blames Delay in Adding More Seats to Jets on Union Woes
Isaac Carey, Skift
The airline is going to have to figure out its labor issues soon, because it's starting to affect nearly every aspect of its operations.
6 months ago
Isaac Carey, Skift
The airline is going to have to figure out its labor issues soon, because it's starting to affect nearly every aspect of its operations.
6 months ago
Patricia Laya and Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
Unions for American's flight crew resisted serving on flights to Venezuela, which is facing political unrest. American's flights were the last available flown by a major U.S. carrier. The move came after the U.S. government issued a safety warning to its citizens in the country. Poor Venezuela.
8 months ago
Mary Schlangenstein, Bloomberg
Southwest is frequently held up as an airline that has a great relationship with its employees. Has anyone factored in the airline's mechanics?
9 months ago
Benjamin Katz, Bloomberg
Britain's flagship carrier is refusing to offer its staff a standard three-year accord. It's proposing only a one-year deal due to uncertainty about Brexit. While unions dislike the move, British Airways does need to manage the risks of the UK's planned exit from the European Union in March.
10 months ago
William Wilkes, Bloomberg
Unions, like companies, can be good or bad. The devil's in the details of this dispute, which airlines and unions worldwide will be following closely.
11 months ago
Ellen Milligan, Bloomberg
Whatever the truth of the situation it's safe to say that relations between Ryanair and some of its unions are not getting any better.
1 year ago
Deanna Ting, Skift
It's Marriott under fire now, but keep an eye on the broader hospitality and travel services industry in the U.S.
1 year ago
Benjamin Katz, Bloomberg
Glass Lewis, an influential shareholder advisory company, has told shareholders of the budget airline to vote against several directors on its board because of concerns over proper governance. Its arguments are more persuasive than Ryanair has let on.
1 year ago
Benjamin Katz, Bloomberg
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary is taking a hard line with unions, even as walkouts hurt the carrier’s bottom line. But we expect it's likely that this deal with Italian pilots will foreshadow other labor agreements in other markets.
1 year ago
Ania Nussbaum, Bloomberg
It will be hard for incoming CEO Ben Smith to accommodate union demands when Air France-KLM will have to also drop routes, curb winter-season seating capacity, and deepen other cost-cutting measures after its second-quarter profit fell 22 percent.
1 year ago
Aine Quinn, Bloomberg
Some unions wrote to Ryanair's large investors claiming that the budget airline uses “bullying as a management tool." The carrier called it an attempt "to generate fake news." Glad to hear negotiations are making progress.
1 year ago
Chris Bryant, Bloomberg
Smith isn't getting a gigantic pay bump for moving to Air France-KLM even with the kind of resume he's bringing over. The unions should probably accept that this is the cost of doing business in European aviation these days.
1 year ago