AMR’s $30M townhouse discovered in bankruptcy, Thai ladyboy flight attendants, Top 10 Las Vegas buffets, business class seats filled with heavy gadgets
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With the Chapter 11 filing of American Airlines, the airline claims, for passengers, everything will be as it was, hunky-dory; not so for its workers. Now, the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government safety net for corporate pension programs, publicly states that AA should not look to the agency as a place to toss their commitments to their employees.
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A decade later: Flight Attendants — Still 9/11′s unsung heroes, victims of airline impersonalization
Airline flight attendants are the unsung heroes and frontline foot soldiers in this country’s “war on terrorism.” Though experts cannot predict when there will be another terrorist attack, they can all agree that one will come. New plans are certainly being tested to attack our transportation systems.
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After last week’s column on flight attendants who hate their passengers, I’m pretty sure a “wanted” poster of me is displayed in every crewmember break room and galley.
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Far from the “coffee, tea, or me?” stereotypes of pre-deregulation air travel, modern-day flight attendants employers actually hate us.
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UPS Airlines to switch to ‘full-face oxygen masks’ in cockpits UPS said that it will retrofit the oxygen masks in the cockpit with “quick-donning” full face oxygen masks. “Safety is an absolute priority for our employees, our customers’ shipments and our aircraft,” UPS Airlines President Mitch Nichols stated. Installation of the new masks on UPS’s [...]
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TSA changes pat-down procedure for kids, fireworks in Las Vegas for more hotel rooftops, Boeing is moving the FA call button
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Memphis open for business despite flooding, Peace in the BA sky between flight attendants and the airline? Qantas/AA joint venture requested from DOT
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Union blasts AA for flight attendant beauty contest, St. Louis airport recovers from tornado, Virgin Blue gets new name — Virgin Australia
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