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CPKC Urges Regulators to Halt Union Pacific Deal as US Funds Crossing Overhaul
Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. has asked federal regulators to end their review of Union Pacific Corp.’s proposed acquisition of Norfolk Southern Corp., escalating the fight over the largest rail merger in US history. In a filing with the Surface Transportation Board on Friday, CPKC said the conduct of Union Pacific and its Chief Executive Officer Jim Vena “has undermined the integrity of this proceeding.” Shippers have alleged that Vena used threats and intimidation to di
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LA-Long Beach Strike Deadline Looms as Venture Global Starts Long-Term LNG Deliveries
The two busiest US container ports face a new strike deadline on Wednesday. On Friday, employers and a small but strategically placed union agreed to extend talks rather than risk a walkout at the height of the import season. The Pacific Maritime Association and International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 26, which represents about 250 maritime watchmen, pushed the deadline back from Sunday to 5 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday. The two sides are negotiating with help fro
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Emptier Planes Are Keeping Airlines in the Air
Airfares are up 22.4 percent from a year ago. That number has dominated the headlines. It tells only half the story. Behind every fare increase this year sits a cost problem no airline created and none can avoid. Jet fuel has become the single biggest threat to the industry’s finances, since the Iran war began in February, and the major U.S. carriers are now making hard, deliberate choices to protect their businesses while keeping planes in the air. A fuel bill that nearly d
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FTC Probes Airline Pricing as Fuel Shock Forces Alaska Air Job Cuts
The Federal Trade Commission has ordered three of the largest US airlines to explain how they set fares. The agency is opening a study into whether carriers use customers’ personal data to charge different prices for the same seat. Delta Air Lines Inc., United Airlines Holdings Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp. were among nine companies that received orders on Wednesday. The others were Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc., DoorDash Inc., Instacart, Walmart Inc. and Target Corp. Ea
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Terms and Conditions Apply: Spirit’s Pilots Didn’t Sign Up to Train Google
More than 3,000 pilots flew for Spirit Airlines before it stopped operating in May. Many have since found cockpits elsewhere, several hundred of them at American Arilines. What they left behind at Spirit was not just a uniform and a badge but decades of training files, fatigue reports and confidential safety submissions. Those records are now for sale, and the pilots are fighting to keep them out of Google’s hands. Google’s $10 million bid for the defunct carrier’s internal d
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Mayday for Isom? American's Pilots Seek a New Captain (and a Bigger Cut)
Pilots Turn on Isom Just as Their Contract Talks Begin The head of American Airlines’ pilot union has publicly questioned whether CEO Robert Isom is the right man to lead the carrier's turnaround, sharpening a dispute that has been building for the best part of a year. Capt. Nick Silva, president of the Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents American's roughly 16,000 pilots, said the pool of executives able to run an airline is small, but asked whether someone cou
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A High-Class Problem: Why America's Pilots Are Doing Just Fine
Jeff Barath retired from United Airlines last year at 65 with a problem most Americans would love to have. He has a partial pension, a brokerage account and a $3.5 million 401(k). Once his required minimum distributions kick in, his retirement income, including Social Security, will be well over $300,000 a year. That's more than he earned in most of his working years. "It's a high-class problem," according to Barath. He's right. And he's far from the only one. Four times the
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The Grey Areas of the Bargaining Table
When flight attendants at United voted on strike authorisation in August 2024, the result came back at 99.99 per cent in favour. The union announced it live from twenty informational picket lines at airports across the country, on the eve of the Labor Day travel weekend. And in the same announcement, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) reminded everyone reading that it holds a trademarked strike strategy called CHAOS, an acronym for Create Havoc Around Our System,
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‘We owe it to the victims’ families and the American flying public’ | Interview with Rep. Sharice Davids on aviation safety reform after Flight 5342
Sharice Davids is the Democratic representative for Kansas’s 3rd District, covering much of the Kansas City metropolitan area. She sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and has played a leading role in Congress's response to the midair collision of American Eagle Flight 5342 with a US Army Black Hawk helicopter on 29 January 2025, in which 67 people were killed. Davids helped lead the bipartisan ALERT Act, which passed the House last month by 396 votes
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'MH370 disappearance shows how ruthless democracy's enemies are' | Interview with aviation journalist Jeff Wise
Jeff Wise is a journalist specializing in aviation, technology, and psychology who has written for Businessweek, Psychology Today, and...
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A High Flying Career: Flight Attendant Kara Mulder on the Evolving Landscape of Aviation
Kara Mulder, an accomplished flight attendant and the creative force behind the popular Flight Attendant Life blog, has leveraged her...
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With Summer Travel Almost Here, the FAA Remains Leaderless
In another twist in the saga of complications and chaos that has been plaguing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), it has recently...
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A High-Class Problem: Why America's Pilots Are Doing Just Fine
Jeff Barath retired from United Airlines last year at 65 with a problem most Americans would love to have. He has a partial pension, a brokerage account and a $3.5 million 401(k). Once his required minimum distributions kick in, his retirement income, including Social Security, will be well over $300,000 a year. That's more than he earned in most of his working years. "It's a high-class problem," according to Barath. He's right. And he's far from the only one. Four times the
Sep 223 min read
The Grey Areas of the Bargaining Table
When flight attendants at United voted on strike authorisation in August 2024, the result came back at 99.99 per cent in favour. The union announced it live from twenty informational picket lines at airports across the country, on the eve of the Labor Day travel weekend. And in the same announcement, the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) reminded everyone reading that it holds a trademarked strike strategy called CHAOS, an acronym for Create Havoc Around Our System,
Sep 104 min read
American Airlines pilots didn't wait for the calendar. They tore it up.
Nearly a year before their contract was due to become amendable, the Allied Pilots Association formally opened negotiations for a new deal, invoking a rarely used clause buried in their 2023 agreement. The trigger? A blunt declaration from union president Nick Silva, in an August 7 letter to CEO Robert Isom, that the airline "cannot agree that implementation is sufficient." Translation: you didn't finish what you promised us last time, so we're coming back to the table now. T
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Newark Airport Dispute Exposes Political Risk to US Aviation
One of America’s busiest international airports found itself at the centre of political confrontation. The Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin threatened on 28 May that the Trump administration could soon stop processing international travellers and cargo at Newark airport as local law enforcement in the Blue State of New Jersey refused to assist federal immigration officials. With fans gearing up for the FIFA World Cup this summer, questions over international
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