Business Express Airlines and AFA reach tentative agreement.PORTSMOUTH, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 1995--Business Express Airlines announced today that it has reached a tentative initial 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. with the Association of Flight Attendants The Association of Flight Attendants (commonly known as AFA) is a union representing flight attendants in the United States. AFA represents 55,000 flight attendants at 20 airlines, making it the world's largest flight attendant union. (AFA AFA In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Afghanistan Afghani. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. . The company had been in negotiations with the flight attendants for approximately fifteen months. The company currently employs over 150 flight attendants. Business Express Airlines President & COO, Gary Ellmer, commented on the tentative agreement, "I am very pleased that we were able to work together with our flight attendant group to reach this accord. The cooperative relationship we have been able to forge with the flight attendants will allow the airline and the union to work together to achieve our mutual long term goals." Business Express Airlines is the largest regional airline in the Northeast offering over 500 daily departures to twenty-five cities in the Northeast and Canada from its three hubs at Boston's Logan International Airport For the Logan airport in Billings, Montana, see . Logan International Airport (IATA: BOS, ICAO: KBOS, FAA LID: BOS) in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States (and partly in the Town of Winthrop, Massachusetts), is one as well as New York's LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy "John Kennedy" and "JFK" redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation) and JFK (disambiguation). John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917–November 22, 1963), was the thirty-fifth President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in Airports. In Boston the airline operates a unique dual code-sharing operation as a Delta Connection partner as well as a Northwest Airlink affiliate. At New York's LaGuardia and JFK Airports the airline operates solely as a Delta Connection partner. Business Express Airlines is one of the few regional airlines that voluntarily operates to the higher FAA Part 121 safety standards as its code-sharing partners. The airlines operates a fleet of jet-prop and pure jet aircraft including the seventy passenger Avro RJ-70 aircraft, thirty-four passenger Saab 340's and nineteen seat Beech 1900 Airliners. The company employs approximately 1500 associates and is headquartered in Portsmouth, N.H. CONTACT: Business Express Airlines Warren R. Wilkinson, 603/334-4022 |
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