Item 11: Special Guest Editorial by Captain Tom Allnatt,
Member of our Local Council 170 Grievance Committee
We Lost a Customer Today
On our return flight from Berlin today, I had the opportunity to take my crew rest in coach, as all of the Business First seats had been sold. I was on break...
Item 6: We Are Not Making This Up: CO Named “Top Military Employer”
From the Daily News Update—also known as “Pravda” by most employees in a charming tip ‘o the cap to communications, Soviet-style:
CO named one of top military employers in the U.S.
CO has been selected by G.I. Jobs magazine...
Item 2: Management Can’t Stand Heat—Removes Kitchen
In another appropriately desperate maneuver from a management team completely void of compassion, heart, imagination, and ideas, the order has been given: all union publications will be removed from our crew rooms.
You might think we’d be...
Magenta Line, Saturday 10-03-09
You are at cruising altitude. The westering sun is pink on the disc. Your eyes flick the gauges. The engines are contented. Another day, another dollar.
You look down at your hands on the wheel. They are veined and hard and brown. Tonight you notice...
There will be an average of 12 a week into April and very possibly into May and June. They may only do 8 in one week due to some logistics problems but that will be made up with 16 the following week.
2 bounty hunters get $9 mil in lawsuit
Michael Kiefer
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 20, 2006 12:00 AM Two bounty hunters who were arrested at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in 1999 for carrying weapons aboard a flight, even though the airline had mistakenly authorized them to do...
Continental, Southwest part profit ways
By Padraic Cassidy, MarketWatch
Last Update: 10:27 AM ET Oct 19, 2006
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Continental Airlines Inc. and Southwest...
From our MEC update:
With the end of summer flying, pilot hiring is now increasing back to its "normal" pace of 36-64 pilots a month until May 2007. 36 pilots will be hired for the month of September. These new hires will be going to IAH and EWR bases on both the B737 and B757 equipment.
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ORDERS
10 MORE BOEING 787s AND 24 MORE BOEING 737s
Airline gains flexibility to replace less efficient aircraft and continue successful growth
HOUSTON, June 6, 2006 – Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) today announced that it has ordered 10 additional Boeing...
Now that JB has set the bar so low...
AP
Delta Asks Workers to Help Clean Aircraft
Friday April 21, 5:26 pm ET
Delta Air Lines Invites Employees to Volunteer to Help Clean Aircraft in Effort to Boost Morale
ATLANTA (AP) -- Delta Air Lines Inc. said Friday it is inviting employees to...
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060405/jetb...winds.html?.v=5
Analysts Criticize JetBlue Expansion Plan
Wednesday April 5, 7:21 pm ET
By Brad Foss, AP Business Writer
Investors Lump JetBlue Among Lackluster Airlines Due to Expansion Plan That's Run Into Headwinds
As the U.S. airline industry...
CO plans to grow its consolidated available seat miles (ASMs) by 8.5 percent in 2006. The company projects mainline ASM growth of 8.1 percent and 4.7 percent mainline domestic ASM growth this year. In 2005, CO expanded to Beijing, China; Delhi, India; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Berlin and...
Why United Airlines will fail again There is a plethora of financial and operational reasons why the United Airlines that exits bankruptcy early next month will soon enough be back in Chapter 11 or desperately seeking a merger to keep itself afloat.
But United Airlines will fail again...
National Transportation Safety Board
Washington, D.C. 20594
Safety Recommendation
Date: January 27, 2006
In reply refer to: A-06-16
Honorable Marion Blakey Administrator
Federal Aviation Administration
Washington, D.C. 20591
On December 8, 2005, about 1914 central standard time...
Here at Continental, it seems like we're in the process of getting PBS shoved down our throats. I've never used it, and I'm hearing all sorts of conflicting information about it. Will it build lines with trips right up to either end of a week of vacation? Will it suck the pool dry of any open...
fwiw... CAL furloughed 310 (or so) in October, another 50 in November, then 75 (active) pilots in December. Most have flowed back to Express - including the off-the-street people - but, a few were too junior to even hold a spot at Express. Word is that, barring anything else happening, that will...
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