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...grim news: Flying is far less secure than the pilots hoped, Congress promised or the traveling public believes. Deadly weapons get onto planes every day. Baggage goes unchecked. "There are fundamental flaws in the government's approach to airline security," says former Northwest Airlines pilot Stephen Luckey, who heads ALPA's Security Committee. "They're worrying about nail clippers, and failing to treat the more significant threats...
...American pilots believe the so-called regional jets will really be used to fly longer routes that would normally be flown by American Airlines pilots and that the Eagle pilots, who are represented by another union, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), will continue their encroachment on APA's turf. "The term regional jet is a misnomer," says Captain Rich Rubin, 47, who pilots a wide-body 767 on long-haul routes out of Miami. "It is a long-range, high-performance jet that flies at Mach .81 at 40,000 ft., like a 767. It will deprive...
...negotiations. Like United, Northwest gave its employees ownership of one-third of the company in exchange for 15% across-the-board pay cuts for three years. All parties are paying close attention to what happens at American. "The airline industry is a copycat industry," says Paul Omodt of ALPA in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which represents Northwest pilots. "What happens at one airline happens at another. There's not a lot of original thought." Labor negotiations are also due to begin at Continental...
Earlier yesterday, Eastern asked a federal judge in Miami to order members of the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA) to return to work. The ALPA, meanwhile, announced plans for a job action starting this morning that could delay every flight on every airline in the nation...
...pilots are conducting their own economic strike against the company," Matell said. "We believe that it is an illegal weapon to gain ALPA's economic objectives...