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Ex-Braniff and Boeing executive Gordon Bethune became famous in aviation for turning around Continental Airlines. He’s now 83 years old and suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
Bethune recently traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with his partner Jessica Rossman, a Houston attorney and former Continental and United Airlines executive who is 27 years his junior. She did not come back, passing away suddenly on March 31 after undergoing a routing cosmetic procedure.
The teamsters want to end outsourcing, get substantial raises and increased overtime while contributing less to healthcare, and obtain more job guarantees. The airline has offered pay increases, which the union calls disgraceful and insulting.
United Airlines has fired back at the American Airlines lawsuit which seeks to block Chicago from redistributing gates away from American and to United. United’s message came in the form of a letter to employees from airline President Brett Hart.
American Airlines has filed suit against the City of Chicago over their plans to take gates away from the airline at O’Hare airport and give more gates to United. American’s position seems reasonably strong, but it’s hardly a slam dunk. American is on solid ground, but a court could buy an alternative start date for the ramp up. And winning the timeline is the linchpin for an injunction.
The United Airlines flight attendants union sent out a message to cabin crew telling them not to reject a contract that gets sent to them under the theory that it’s always best to turn down the best deal. This suggests to me that the believe a contract is close. United’s flight attendants haven’t had a raise in over five years.
United Airlines is telling flight attendants to stop leaving passengers behind on empty planes. Customers fall asleep in their seats, everyone gets off the plane – and flight attendants have just been leaving them there.
A United airlines flight attendant has sparked significant backlash after sharing a Paris layover story online. She and her fellow crewmembers left a junior flight attendant behind at Charles de Gaulle Airport. Rather than feeling bad about this, she criticized the colleague for being “cheap” and bringing her own food which caused them to separate.
Suddenly United Airlines is banning customer-facing employees from wearing any pin other than an American flag pin. They are currently allowed a choice of 18 approved pins on their uniform.
A a result of United’s planned partnership with JetBlue, United could takeover 20 slot pairs at New York JFK and if “conditions are favorable” United could eventually acquire the smaller carrier. United could gain access to two of JetBlue’s gates at JFK, operating up to 20 total daily departures. The report suggests a partnership that rolls out in three phases.
The United-JetBlue deal is going to be bigger than many expect, even if it isn’t announced that way on day one.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
