If you're scheduled to fly British Airways in the coming weeks, this is at least something that should be on your radar... British Airways and their pilots have been in contract negotiations for quite a while, and not a whole lot has come of those talks…
EVA Air has been having significant operational issues lately, due to a labor dispute between management and flight attendants. The flight attendants have been on strike for over two weeks, and this led to about 2,250 flights being canceled. For a while…
As many of you are probably aware, American is having huge issues with their mechanics. They're currently in a labor dispute, and management and the unions will be in court starting tomorrow. Even though American has had a restraining order against their…
“If you care about your families’ safety, do not put them on an American Airlines flight until this injunction is vacated.” American Airlines' situation with their mechanics just keeps getting messier and messier. American Airlines and their mechanics…
A few weeks ago I wrote about how American Airlines filed a lawsuit against TWU-IAM, which is the union representing their mechanics. American and their mechanics union are currently in the middle of a heated contract negotiation. Or more accurately…
Yesterday I wrote about how American Airlines filed an injunction against TWU-IAM, the union representing their mechanics. According to American's management, the union has tried to “illegally gain leverage in contract negotiations by directing a coordinated…
Things just got serious... As I noted at the beginning of the year, this is going to be a tough year for contract negotiations between American management and their employees. American's flight attendant contracts become amendable as of December 2019,…
Fortunately the government isn't shut down anymore, though late last year and early this year we had the longest partial government shutdown ever. While federal workers weren't being paid, it's interesting what seemed to tip the scales in reopening the…
While I don’t think there will be any immediate impact, this is something to watch over the coming days, weeks, and months, in my opinion. American contract negotiations are ramping up The early stages of contract negotiations are starting between…
I get a lot of email pitches, and most of them are actively uninteresting to me. "Ben: new data about millennial basketweaving trends in Namibia." That'll be a no from me. But earlier I received an email with the subject line: "Labor dispute amid Polaris…
A few days ago I posted about how a computer glitch at American caused 15,000 flights over the holidays to be scheduled without pilots. This impacted flights between December 17 and 31, 2017, where apparently pilots were able to “trade” off holiday trips,…
Well, this is a pretty major glitch. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) is the union representing American's pilots, and they've just revealed a major issue that management reported to them. Apparently due to a computer glitch, virtually all pilots…
Since June this year, British Airways’ mixed fleet crew have been on strike. Thankfully, the impact hasn’t been as large as when it happens at Lufthansa or Air France. In fact, for passengers the experience has been quite positive. Many intra-European…
We've seen a lot of hypocrisy from U.S. airlines when it comes to their condemnation of the Gulf carriers. For example, the lobbying group of the major U.S. legacy airlines shamed the U.S. Travel Association for working with the Gulf carriers, when one…
British Airways has a few different flight attendant contracts. One of those contracts is for their "mixed fleet" crews, which are their relatively newly hired flight attendants. As you may remember a few years back, British Airways flight attendants…
In September American Airlines rolled out new uniforms for their 70,000+ employees. While uniforms in and of themselves won’t change the customer experience, symbolically they represented the “new American” becoming one, since previously American and…
Roughly 82% of Delta's 13,000 pilots have voted in favor of a new contract, which will see them getting a pay raise of over 30% over four years. Pilots had voted down an earlier contract, so while this one will be costly for the airline, at least they…
Today Lufthansa's pilots are striking for the sixth day since last week, which has led to about 4,500 flights being canceled, and over 500,000 passengers being inconvenienced. Up until now there has been no end in sight for the strike, as the pilots…
This past week has been a rough one for Lufthansa, as their pilots went on strike for four days (on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday), causing hundreds of thousands of passengers to have their travels disrupted. The pilots have been unwilling…
Well, it looks like no end is in sight for Lufthansa's pilot strike. Initially Lufthansa's pilots union announced a one day strike, which was supposed to take place on Wednesday. Then it was extended until Thursday. Then the union announced a strike…
Lufthansa's pilots have been on strike for the past two days (and really for the past several years of their careers, it feels like). Initially the strike was just supposed to be on Wednesday, but then they extended it through Thursday. This strike impacted…
