News and notes from around the interweb:
- American Airlines pilots just successfully negotiated a new contract. They already want to renegotiate. They are unhappy with American’s business plan focusing on domestic short haul flying, with the length of their trips, and with the amount of flying by regionals: “The only ways out of this “square corner” the new business plan creates are absorbing one or more of the wholly owned operations, putting RJs on our seniority list, or attempting to renegotiate our Scope clause.”
- Baby born on Aeromexico.
A baby was born aboard a flight from #Aeroméxico which was from #CDMX to Ciudad Juárez. The flight attendants and a doctor who was a passenger supported the mother and everything went perfectly.
¡Parto en las alturas!
Un bebé nació a bordo de un vuelo de #Aeroméxico qué iba de #CDMX a Ciudad Juárez. Las sobrecargos y una doctora que iba de pasajera apoyaron a la mamá y todo salió perfecto. ✈️ pic.twitter.com/LD46VWDeuK
— Luis Gabriel Velázquez (@soyluisgabriel1) March 15, 2024
- Ex-Delta Air Lines COO Gil West becomes CEO of Hertz. West is widely credited with building Delta’s reliability, and left during the pandemic.
- But dog longevity drugs have a market
building supersonic jets and dog longevity drugs: more similar than you might think pic.twitter.com/hy0aziI3yl
— Celine Halioua (@celinehalioua) March 16, 2024
- Worth pondering.
The train is sitting idle in the station for 8 hours! You could literally add a 9:30 return and a 1 PM back out slot with zero incremental capacity! What are you *doing* here?
— Quantian (@quantian1) March 16, 2024
- Judge orders airline to compensate passenger for rotten fish in his lost luggage (HT: Paul H) Oh, Canada:
Even though passengers are prohibited from putting perishables in their luggage, Vu had stuffed his satchel with crab meat, fish cakes, sea cucumbers, and other delicacies. Unfortunately, the airline lost his luggage.
When the bag was located five days later, the seafood had unsurprisingly gone bad. Vu filed a suit in small claims court. Sounds fishy but a member of British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal ruled in his favor.
“The Canadian Transportation Agency has repeatedly held that if an airline accepts checked baggage then the airline assumes liability for the baggage even if the airline has not agreed to transport certain items,” Tribunal member Peter Mennie stated.
Ahhhh … rotten fish in a checked bag . Was the bag actually lost ? Or Discarded by an alert baggage handler ?
There are normally 13 Surfliners a day (LA-San Diego trains), right now there are only two per day due to landslides affecting the tracks, in part because rich NIMBYs refuse to allow stronger mitigation measures (removing parts of cliff faces near the tracks) in coastal areas.
The contract, still intact. (Depeche Mode)
The grabbing hands now realize that they are getting other than they thought they were bargaining for.
High speed rail between Los Angeles and San Diego first would have made sense but would have faced formidable opposition that could have possibly stopped it. It is best to have precedent cases where there is less opposition.
With an inflight birth, where does it take place and how are things such as the afterbirth and the water dealt with especially with fewer blankets these days?
You appear to misunderstand the quoted section of the APA email. APA does not want to renegotiate the scope language; in fact, they were steadfastly opposed to opening that section of the contract during negotiations.
Rather, the email is speculating that the company may seek to renegotiate that language to allow increased outsourcing of APA jobs, while noting that APA would meet that request with “virulent opposition”.
Michael beat me to it. The headline of this article is a complete misinterpretation of the statement by the union president. Frankly the title of the article is misleading and should be corrected.
The headline is commentary on what the union president said. If they had a beef with American they had an opportunity to address it. There’s no information that’s new to anyone who has been paying attention.
The Pilots lost sight of clients who is actually paying for them to fly – I have watched so many pilots displace paying clients who lost first class seats – your flight is delayed you try to get on earlier flight but pilots take the FC seat over passenger / been on last flight of the day going into a city with pilots bring upgraded over passengers no way they were going to work
Pilots need to refocus
The headline is still 100% wrong, “commentary” or not. As usual, when something Gary says is untrue and it is pointed out, he doubles down with a supposed “defense” that normally has absolutely nothing to do with the actual point.
Gary, the APA pilots do NOT want to renegotiate their contract as you claim. In fact they reiterate that they will REFUSE to renegotiate the contract when the company comes calling. All APA did was point out their opinion that AA’s newly-stated focus was ill-advised and likely to fail.
Typical View From The Wing: Gary pulls out his designated villains, twists the facts to make said villains seem evil, and then posts under a hyper-sensationalized title. Why? He has to attract readers for a given amount of columns per week.
@CK Flier +1
I think the pilots should buy AA. With the new pay rates they’ll be in a strong financial position to pull off the financing and they could push those pesky paying customers out of the few upgrade seats and premium cabin lavs so the pilots could use them instead.
And another thing Gary,
Besides your “commentary” headline literally being the opposite of the actual truth, the pilots most assuredly did NOT “have the opportunity to address it.” This is a new company focus in 2024, and the contract negotiations concluded last summer. So when exactly was this opportunity you claimed?
Do you even do any research before you post?
@Sean Murphy this is not a new company focus in 2024, you haven’t been paying attention
For all you passengers who pay full price for first class, you can gladly have my seat if I am deadheading. For all of you who were upgraded because AA has so many levels of status… sorry, I deserve a good seat because I’m actually trying to rest between flights when I ride on first class! And yes, I’m a pilot.
BTW, Gary once again has no clue abt whatever he writes!