AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
BUSINESS BRIEFS.(TO THE POINT)
TRANSPORTATION
UAL's cost-cutting plan doesn't fly
Pilots and attendants ripped United Airlines' plan to lop $9 bil off labor costs over six years. The world's No. 2 carrier wants $1.5 bil in labor concessions, the bulk of $2.5 bil in annual savings it says it needs to stay aloft. Pilots, who agreed to wage cuts in June, said the new demands are unacceptable. Flight attendants also rejected wage cuts.
American Air sets standby fee
To cut costs and encourage travelers to buy more expensive tickets, the world's No. 1 carrier will now charge $100 for customers who want to fly standby on tickets for travel next year. AMR's American also dropped the one-year grace period on missed flights after Oct. 1 for nonrefundable tickets. US Air made similar changes a few days earlier.
- Midwest Express flight attendants said they will strike random flights after failing to reach a labor deal with the regional carrier.
Ford pulling plug on electric car
- New Vivendi bid likely to come from the inside.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: TV Meets the Web May 21, 2003 700+ words
TV MEETS THE WEB-(C)2003 Van Dusseldorp & Partners - httpwww.vandusseldorp.com/ Vivendi Universal is reported to be expecting a new bid for the US entertainment assets it is disposing of - from the man who sold them to Vivendi in the first place. Edgar Bronfman Jnr, now the vice chairman of the
- New Vivendi Universal players grow.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Video Business Donahue, Ann Gaudiosi, John May 7, 2001 700+ words
Fox titles, Lord of the Rings under umbrella Vivendi Universal Publishing and Fox Interactive last week inked a three-year co-publishing agreement that gives Vivendi the exclusive right to manufacture Fox games for PC and consoles. In another major deal, VUP's Sierra Studio will develop and release
- Flight attendants may change unions.
- Newspaper article from: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) September 26, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: Jewel Gopwani Sep. 26--The flight attendants at Northwest Airlines Inc. have an...and job cuts, there is a push among flight attendants to switch unions. Some flight attendants are campaigning to leave the 2-year...
- Flight attendants unprepared to defend against terror, they say.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Barrett, Rick May 11, 2004 700+ words
...Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many flight attendants say they're still poorly prepared...spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, a labor union with 45,000 members...to deliver 10,000 letters from flight attendants to the federal Transportation Security...
- Flight Attendants Hit Midway's Number Two Carrier.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 12, 1999 700+ words
ATA Flight Attendants Say They Want Better Pay or it...Midway Airport, Concourse C Flight attendants who fly for Midway's second...president of the Association of Flight Attendants' Council 33. "ATA's expansion...
- Flight Attendants Have Veto Power Over United Airlines/US Airways Merger;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 26, 2000 700+ words
...PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines flight attendants made a strong statement to their...can only happen with the support of flight attendants. "Unresponsiveness to concerns...attendant schedules have angered flight attendants. And until yesterday, United acted...
- Flight Attendants Demand Better Security Training.
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) May 12, 2004 700+ words
...Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many flight attendants say they're still poorly prepared...spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, a labor union with 45,000 members...to deliver 10,000 letters from flight attendants to the federal Transportation Security...
- American Flight Attendants' Ill Will Has Been Years in Making.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 16, 2003 700+ words
...in public, but American Airlines flight attendants have become hardened unionists through...The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has resorted to a strike only once...the airline, and the battle won flight attendants a more lucrative contract. "This...
