Teamsters Airline Division Week in Review News Letters

Airline Division News Items The FAA Reauthorization Bill May be Put Off for Another Three Months, According to Congressional Quarterly With a deadline approaching for reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, lawmakers in both chambers are beginning to plan another short-term extension for the agency accordingly to a Congressional Quarterly article this week. The current short-term […]

Airline Division News Items   National Mediation Board Orders a Rerun Election be Held at Cape Air   On November 18, 2009 the NMB ruled that the “laboratory conditions” necessary for a fair election were tainted in the representation election for Cape Air pilots held in early May, and ordered a new election be held. 

Airline Division News Items     Republic To Move Frontier’s Teamster Mechanics from Denver to Milwaukee   Frontier's parent company, Republic Airways Holdings, announced Tuesday that about 200 mechanics now based in Denver and some of the 118 employees of the airline's reservation center in Las Cruces, N.M., will be moved to Milwaukee. Indianapolis-based Republic

Airline Division News Items     NMB Proposes Change in Representation Voting Rule The National Mediation Board wants to make it easier for thousands of airline and railway workers to unionize under the Railway Labor Act by seeking to junk a 75-year-old election rule, according to a proposal published Monday in the Federal Register. The

Airline Division News Items   United Mechanics Win Bid to Keep Maintenance Jobs at SFO   United Airlines says 60 jobs at San Francisco International Airport have been saved because its local maintenance base came in with the best bid to upgrade the first class and business class cabins in 32 of its Boeing 777

Airline Division News Items   Frontier Exits Bankruptcy as a Subsidiary of Republic Airlines Holdings   Frontier Airlines emerged from bankruptcy protection on Thursday under new ownership. Frontier is now a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings Inc., which beat out a bid from Southwest Airlines Co.  Republic has said it will keep the Frontier name

Airline Division News Items   UPS Aircraft Mechanics Vote to Authorize Strike   UPS Airlines mechanics have voted to give their leaders authority to call a strike as nearly three years of talks have failed to produce a labor contract.  Ninety percent of the 1,052 ballots from members nationwide approved the authorization, said Bob Combine,

Airline Division News Items FAA Policy Change Airlines will no longer be called ''customers'' of the FAA, the agency responsible for regulating aviation safety said. Randy Babbitt, the new Federal Aviation Administration chief, said Thursday that the agency will stop calling air carriers its ''customers'' — a practice adopted by the Bush administration. Lawmakers have

Airline Division News Items FAA Reauthorization Bill Update If the Senate fails to act on an FAA Reauthorization bill before the end of the month, another short-term reauthorization of the agency will be required. The House has already passed their bill, but floor time in the Senate is at a premium as lawmakers continue to

Airline Division News Items Republic Airways Holdings Wins Bid for Frontier in Bankruptcy Court Auction In a surprise decision, the Frontier creditors decided to select Republic as the winning bidder in the bankruptcy auction process.  The main reason seems to be that Southwest refused to remove from its bid a requirement that the pilot unions