WILMINGTON, Ohio, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Omni Air International flight deck crew members, represented by the Airline Professionals Association (APA) Teamsters Local 1224 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Airline Division announced that they have ratified a tentative agreement for their first collective bargaining agreement. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/ prnh/20100127/IBTLOGO)
DALLAS - This time, he required coffee. And Doug Gibbs doesn't like coffee; he's more of a Coke guy when he needs a boost. So he dulls the taste with lots of cream. This Tuesday would demand maximum caffeine: a 3:40 a.m. wakeup call to ensure he was on a shuttle bus by 4:30 from the hotel to the Little Rock airport. A first officer for American Eagle Airlines, Gibbs had to check in for the 5:40 a.m. flight to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport - the first of five flights he'd be in the cockpit for on a workday that wouldn't get him back to his Lewisville home until after 6 p.m.
NAPLES, Fla., Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- As people across America get ready for the busiest travel day of the year, the fervor over the TSA's new security checks have many calling for a Thanksgiving opt-out of the full-body x-ray scans, which could lead to tremendous delays nationwide. Both passengers and flight crews are being subjected to the new security procedures by the TSA. Airline professionals Captain Doug and Gala Reitz have traveled all over the world working for major commercial U.S. airlines. Having been in the biggest airports internationally, they know the inside scoop on how travel pros pack light and get through security quickly and without incident.
As we cram into airplanes this holiday season, there is an aspect of air travel that we're likely to be putting out of our minds -- pilots asleep at the yoke and flight attendants so tired their mental states can be likened to a drunken stupor. Most Americans are protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act, which since 1938 has limited the workday to eight hours and the workweek to 40 hours. Airlines, which are governed by the Federal Aviation Administration, are exempt. They can push their workers up to 20 hours a day, without bearing the cost of overtime pay, which discourages such practice.
Weary Southwest Airlines flight crews will no longer be kicking back at the Ronkonkoma Holiday Inn and downing a few at The Brickyard Bar. Southwest spokeswoman Olga Romero said the contract which houses crews at the Veteran's Highway hotel is due to expire June 30 and will not be picked up. She gave no reason why the Dallas-based carrier bailed on the contract.
WASHINGTON - Airlines must eliminate the casual cockpit atmosphere and distracting conversations that prevent the industry from taking its "99-plus" safety record to 100 percent, a federal safety board chief said Tuesday. The National Transportation Safety Board began a three-day forum on boosting aviation professionalism after fatal crashes and a flight that overshot its destination by 150 miles highlighted crew behaviors that violate safety standards.
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