Airline News - North America.Dec 4, 2006 Mesa Air Group Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ: MESA) is a Nevada Corporation[1] commercial aviation holding company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. The company operates three regional airline subsidiaries: Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines, and Air Midwest, and five supporting Mesa Air Group pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Assn., filed a federal lawsuit this week in an effort to force management to follow what the pilots consider to be terms of their collective bargaining agreement The contractual agreement between an employer and a Labor Union that governs wages, hours, and working conditions for employees and which can be enforced against both the employer and the union for failure to comply with its terms. . The dispute centers on the awarding of flight schedules and reassigning of flight duties. "Competent pilot scheduling is key to our pilots' quality of life," Mesa ALPA ALPA abbr. Air Line Pilots Association unit chairman James Ackerman said. "It dictates how long you're away from home, how much you're paid and how productive you are while on duty." Dec 1, 2006 American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the American Airlines will abandon its services from Boston to Baltimore/Washington International and Orlando International on Dec. 13, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. The Boston Globe. AirTran Airways AirTran Airways is a low-cost airline that is a Delaware corporation with headquarters in Orlando, Florida, USA and is a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings. AirTran operates over 750 daily flights throughout the eastern USA and the Midwest, including over 270 daily departures from will begin operating the MCO MCO Managed care organization, see there service Dec. 21. AA still will serve 23 destinations from Logan and is working with local authorities on an upgrade of its facilities at the airport, the paper said. Nov 30, 2006 Horizon, Alaska Airlines Horizon and partner Alaska Airlines have introduced a Spanish language website. By early next year the carriers plan to offer Spanish at check-in kiosks and add Spanish-speaking reservations agents at call centers, among other initiatives. Nov 30, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines will revamp and double its New York-Chicago service starting Feb. 15. Flights from LaGuardia will land at Midway rather than O'Hare and will run seven-times-daily aboard Shuttle America E-170s. JFK-ORD flights will operate five-times-daily aboard 50- or 70-seat Comair CRJs. Nov 29, 2006 Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines will launch a Boston-Chicago Midway service on Jan. 11, operating thrice-daily on weekdays and twice-daily on weekends aboard Comair 50-seat CRJs. Nov 28, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Nov 13, 2006 |
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