Posts Tagged with "union"

Not that you would be getting this from here first, but just in case:

The evil union of flight attendants at BA has voted to strike from 22. December to 2. January.  Way to ruin everyone's Christmas, you assholes. 

The general statement can be found here, rebooking information here, and a message from the CEO here.  The general message - if you have BA flight bookings during this period - is that you are screwed.  Even I feel the pain for them, and for ...

On a side note, are you Carrie Underwood fans really going to let Jenn Brown's people kick your ass?  Seriously?

So it shouldn't be a shock that I've been thinking about making some changes to my carrier choices for some time now.  I've got Delta Platinum (soon to be Diamond), Continental Platinum, and BMI Gold.  The last two are from status matches I've made in the past month.

There are things that I want to be better at Delta.  I wish that the ...

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(Title - in part - courtesy of Deadspin.)

After an epic fail of a weekend, I have a few thoughts for you.   Note to self, if you're going to keep working long jobs in Atlanta, make some decent friends.  Not cool to have no parties to go to on the sluttiest holiday of the year.  Not cool at all.

Delta was also nice enough to let us know that the evil-union-mechanics are causing problems.  Thanks for stretching it out, guys.  We really want to keep ...

It looks as if AA is having more problems than previously thought, although certainly not on par with US.  The Financial Times and Tulsa World are reporting that AA will be shutting down its Kansas City maintenance base and eliminating 700 jobs.

Also from the The Financial Times today, filed under the "Unions are Evil" section, is an article about Boeing's decision to start building 787s in South Carolina, because of the labor unions in Washington creating too ...