This story was posted on the Honolulu Star Bulletin website today:
Hawaiian Air delays Airbus purchase, citing dispute with pilots
Star-Bulletin staff and news services
Hawaiian Airlines Inc. said it delayed and may scrap plans to buy as many as 24 Airbus SAS wide- body jets because of an impasse in talks with pilots.
The purchase, with a list price of $4.4 billion, was announced Nov. 28. Hawaiian, a unit of Honolulu-based Hawaiian Holdings Inc., disclosed the delay today in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Hawaiian had been negotiating with pilots on terms and conditions under which the planes would enter its fleet.
Talks “failed to produce an agreement to date†and the sale may not be completed, Hawaiian said in the filing.