GoJets Negotiating Update
The negotiating Committee spent the majority of the past week (June 23rd) working on IBT 618 Pilot Group Steward Elections. Preparation work was done on Section 8 – (Scheduling).
IBT National Representatives, Captains Paul Alves and Rick Dubinsky, IBT 618 Local President/Business Representative Mike Foster and Steward Chris Slavens met with the Company on Wednesday, June 25th to discuss several topics, including Negotiation issues.
The next negotiating session is scheduled in the week of August 11-15th.
Airline Industry News
Governmental and Regulatory
President Barack Obama will nominate Christopher Hart to be chairman of the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The Federal Aviation Administration is appealing a judge's decision that the FAA was wrong in fining a man who flew an unmanned aerial vehicle around the University of Virginia to capture video of the campus.
The FAA's "lack of an executable plan, unresolved technical issues, and ineffective collaboration with industry," are "programmatic challenges" to moving toward the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), Assistant Inspector General for Aviation Audits Matthew Hampton testified June 25th.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has denied a petition to reconsider its findings in the investigation of the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800.
In a decision released Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case in which US Airways pilots were challenging the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.’s calculation of their benefits. The prolonged case stems from US Airways’ termination of its pension plan more than 10 years ago, giving the pilots’ pension responsibility to the PBGC.
Airlines, Industry and Labor
As part of Boeing’s plan to increase 737 production rates to 47 and beyond, and to prepare for the introduction of the MAX at gradually increasing rates, the company is introducing an automated wing assembly process that will reduce flow time by more than one-third.
Boeing's decision to assemble the 777X in Washington means that aerospace suppliers may be drawn to the state to capitalize on the move, says Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's aerospace adviser, Alex Pietsch. The Boeing decision has made it easier to recruit companies, he explained.
Boeing is braced for temporary disruption to its busy 737 production system in Renton after a train carrying six fuselages from Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, Kansas, derailed in a mountain pass, sending several freight cars into a river.