by admin | Apr 3, 2003 | News
If the flight attendants’ union approves a new contract with American Airlines, it could mean every attendant based at Lambert-St. Louis Airport will be unemployed. That’s about 1,800 of them. The new contract calls for layoffs of 2,000 flight attendants....
by admin | Sep 3, 2002 | News
About 100 flight attendants and pilots for TWA have marched in St. Louis in a Labor Day protest of their treatment by American Airlines, which absorbed TWA last year. They’re protesting American’s new layoffs plan which will hit former TWA employees hard...
by admin | Aug 15, 2002 | News
Former TransWorld Airlines pilots, targetted by American Airlines for lay-offs, are fighting back. The pilots who now fly for American want the carrier and Congress to revisit their complaints about the seniority system that puts them first in line for lay-offs. About...
by admin | Aug 14, 2002 | Transportation
Officials at Lambert Airport in St. Louis insist the latest blow to the airline industry won’t halt plans to add a runway. A 9,000 foot runway costing between 1.1-Billion and $1.4-Billion is scheduled to open in 2006. Lambert Director Leonard Griggs says...
by admin | Aug 13, 2002 | News
American Airlines is cutting 7,000 jobs as part of what the airline calls a massive restructuring. The 7,000 jobs represent about 6 percent of American’s work force. An American Airlines spokesman confirms many of the job cuts will be in St. Louis. 550 pilots...
