More extremely astute observations by.......
Since you are into reading about stories that have NOTHING to do with the SLI & the pilot merger process that was followed completely, here are some other such stories from the archives for your reading pleasure:
USAir plans to cut jet flights, 170 jobs at BWI Some fear move may hurt airport's stature as hub.
February 06, 1992|By Ross Hetrick and John H. Gormley Jr.
In an effort to turn around its
money-losing operation at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport, USAir announced yesterday that it plans to cut the number of jet flights from the airport, increase the number of commuter departures and cut full-time employment at BWI by nearly 170 workers.
Travel agents and analysts said the move will reduce Baltimore's stature as a hub and mean lower-quality service for the many travelers who dislike propeller planes.
US Airways to cut attendant jobs
Published: Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 8:34 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 12:00 a.m.
US Airways will
lay off more than 550 flight attendants, most of them in Philadelphia, next month after hundreds of others returned from voluntary leave, which was intended to
help the airline weather its weak finances and bankruptcy.
Company and union officials said the Arlington, Va.-based airline will lay off 552 flight attendants on Jan. 15, based on seniority.
The layoffs apparently mark the end of voluntary furloughs the nation's seventh-largest airline offered its employees to stave off job cuts.
Under the offer, veteran employees could go on leave to preserve a younger worker's job.
Unions accept massive cutbacks at US Airways
By Paul Sherman
6 January 2003
Union leaders representing
32,000 pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and other workers at US Airways have agreed to cuts in pay, reduction of benefits and changes to work rules that will save the airline more than $1.2 billion a year.
The cuts were part of a
bankruptcy reorganization plan filed by US Airways on December 20. In total, the airline plans to cut costs by $1.8 billion a year. The airline also plans to lay off another 2,700 workers by April. In the past two years the airline has cut 14,000 jobs.
US Airways presented the reorganization plan shortly after it finished negotiating $200 million a year in additional concessions from its four major unions. Only a few months earlier, the unions had granted more than $900 million a year in pay and benefits cuts. But creditors deemed that the cuts were not enough and threatened to drive the airline into liquidation if even more draconian measures were not taken.
The
pilots union, the Air Line Pilots Association, approved new pay cuts totaling $99 million a year. This is on top of $465 million in annual concessions agreed to by the pilots in October.
The airline has already laid off 2,000 pilots(many of whom which have been hired by the Cinderella airline America West based in Phonenix, AZ). There are currently 4,000 pilots still working.
