Aug 24 - When traveling to or from Recurrent Emergency Training (RET), irregularities in travel sometimes occur. These are the procedures you should follow if you find yourself in a situation where your travel or duty time impacts your training.
Aug 13 - On Monday, August 16th, Flight Attendant boarding times on domestic narrowbody aircraft are changing from 35 to 40 minutes. Passenger boarding will not change.
Aug 9 - The System Board of Adjustment today announced a win for AFA in the charter case and "order[s] that the Company cease and desist from “feeding” names to charters and reiterate the need for the Company to act in accordance with Section 9.A.4."
Aug 4 - Panic at Los Angeles International Airport this week as Mexicana Airlines filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Mexico.
Jun 23 - Beginning with the July schedule, some trips will include one or more segments in which United Express (UAX) flights are used as deadhead segments.
Apr 18 - The cancellation of flights to and from most of Europe due to the Iceland volcanic ash plume hovering in aviation air space has resulted in several crewmembers being stranded on layover. Assistance for these Members is detailed in this article.
Apr 18 - KLM, Lufthansa, Air France and some other airlines are pushing for an end to the total ban on commercial air traffic. Authorities, however, extended airspace restrictions across Europe and said there was no end in sight to the plume spewing out of a volcano in Iceland, which they insist is dangerous to planes.
Apr 16 - Our Contract includes reassignment parameters to allow the airline to respond to operational irregularities while ensuring certain pay and schedule protections for Flight Attendants. Carry your Contract and keep it close at hand.
Apr 15 - Civil aviation authorities closed airspace and shut down airports in Britain, France, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe on Thursday as a high-altitude cloud of ash drifted south and east from an erupting volcano in Iceland.
Mar 15 - With six weeks to go before the new rule on tarmac delays is enforced, the airlines and the DOT are arguing about the potential impact and pointing fingers over who would be responsible if the new rule leads to more canceled flights.
Feb 8 - All of the winter storms across the country remind us of the importance of carrying our Contract and remaining proficient with Contractual reassignment legality and pay protections.
Jan 22 - The process of passport verification and immigration for crews departing PVG and PEK is returning to the procedures used prior to the 2008 Olympic Games.
Dec 21 - With the storms that blasted the entire east coast along with other parts of the world continuing to paralyze much of the operation, it is incumbent upon all of us to know our Contractual rights and legalities.
Nov 20 - United Airlines is close to placing its first aircraft order in more than a decade and has narrowed its search to two groundbreaking airplanes: Boeing's 787 Dreamliner or Airbus' counterpart, the A350-XWB, sources told the Tribune.
Nov 19 - A computer problem Thursday morning at the Atlanta airport, the busiest in the nation, is causing the cancellation of most departing flights, leading to cascading delays at airports up the East Coast and elsewhere in the country, the authorities said.
Nov 17 - Codeshare partners United Airlines and Continental Airlines said Tuesday that starting next year they will allow members of each carrier's frequent flier program who have earned elite status to receive unlimited free upgrades on flights operated by both airlines when space is available.
Oct 13 - United Airlines said Wednesday it will press ahead with a controversial plan to outsource some international flying to Aer Lingus despite further cutbacks at the Irish carrier.
Sep 10 - Traditional ID number changes will return to historic ranges in October.
Jul 9 - The U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday issued a $80,000 penalty against United Airlines for failing to tell customers that the flights they were traveling on were operated by another carrier.
Jul 2 - A United Airlines network computer outage this morning at O'Hare is causing delays and grounded a number of flights.