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• A New Union Marketing Strategy, Hire a Republican

  It’s Labor Day again and some fresh thinking is long past due. Everyone knows the American labor movement has fallen off the edge of a cliff the past few decades and even a blue president isn’t going to be able to fix it all. The big question... Posted Sep 07 2009, 06:23 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: ALPA, Boeing strike, NATCA, Northwestern University, Sam Gompers, The Buzz, Wal-Mart, Union organizers, Labor Day

• Pilots: Who Needs Them?

  Qualified professionals to operate the world’s fleet of new, high-technology aircraft are more necessary than ever before, despite a growing proliferation of UAVs. Unfortunately, airline management and their pilots are not always on the same page... Posted Aug 03 2009, 10:55 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: Air Traffic Control, air traffic controllers, airline pilot, Airlines, ALPA, Aviation Marketing, Blogging, Business Aviation, business aviation pilots, FAA, NATCA, Flight Training

• Airline Labor: Tougher Tactics to Come?

  I have to good fortune to be one of the aviation resources some media folks seem to want to use to translate complex aviation babble into language even my 14-year old daughter can understand. We don’t have too many good-news stories in the airline... Posted Jan 16 2009, 08:20 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: US Airways, Air Traffic Control, airline, ALPA, CNN Headline News, Fox Radio network, Fox TV News, Jetwhine, NATCA, The Buzz, NBC Chicago

• Airline Flying Isn’t Like a Bus … It is a Bus

  Well, Spirit Airlines has finally gone and done it. They’ve taken what used to be a really nice product - I flew them often between ORD and TPA until they dropped the service - and turned it into the closest thing to a city bus possible by adding... Posted Sep 18 2008, 01:56 AM by Jetwhine Filed under: air travel, ALPA, bus advertising, mile high club, mile high media, Spirit Airlines, The Buzz, pilots

• Airline Unions Won’t be Fooled a Second Time

  The withdrawal of US Airways from the Air Line Pilots Association yesterday should be recognized as more than simply a disgruntled group of aviators in search of someone to plead their case about integrating an airline seniority list. The militant move... Posted Apr 18 2008, 09:49 PM by Jetwhine Filed under: US Airways, Air Line Pilots Association, air travel, Airlines, Airports, ALPA, American Airlines, Continental, FAA, mergers, Northwest, The Buzz, United, labor negotiations