Way Past Time to Get Back to the Basics American Airlines management likes to refer to the airline’s employees as “team members.” We’re not exactly feeling it today. The press release announcing American Airlines’ plans to acquire a stake in South American carrier Jet...

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WARN Letters, Again: Management Announces Up to 1,850 Pilot Furloughs Management announced that American Airlines is sending a WARN notice affecting 1,850 pilots. This news and the potential new round of pilot furloughs is devastating not only for the affected pilots and their families, but for all...

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A Year Unlike Any Other When 2020 began, APA was finalizing plans for what became the largest informational picketing event in the union’s history, with more than 700 pilots gathering at DFW on Jan. 29 to signal their support for APA’s Section 6 bargaining goals. We simultaneously condu...

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The Best Measure of a Company’s Culture American Airlines has long cited the value of culture as a competitive advantage, but I believe the best measure of a company’s culture is how it conducts itself in a crisis. Today, management announced plans to furlough 1,605 pilots this fall, wi...

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We Need More Than “Should,” “May,” and “Recommend” “To safeguard with ceaseless vigilance, the safety of scheduled air transportation in recognition of the high degree of public trust, confidence and responsibility placed on the members.” — All...

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The Reality of Our Situation Fellow Pilots, As your union leadership directs all of APA’s resources to meet the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, we have done our best to make rational, fact-based decisions. Given the gravity of the situation in our industry, it would be easy to let emotion...

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APA Information Hotline This is APA President CA Eric Ferguson with the APA Information Hotline for Sunday, March 15. APA BOARD OF DIRECTORS APPROVES LOA 20-001 – NOVEL CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): The APA Board of Directors convened a voting conference call this evening at 7 p.m. Central. Fol...

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Presidential Directive — Coronavirus Pilots, At my direction, the Allied Pilots Association filed a lawsuit this afternoon seeking the immediate halt to all American Airlines flights between the United States and China. Click these links to see the filing and an associated press release. He...

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What Now? It’s Jan. 2, 2020, and the amendable date of our collective bargaining agreement has come and gone. What now? American Airlines CEO Doug Parker made a bold proclamation when he said “shame on us if we can’t figure out, over the course of a year, how to get a contract do...

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Management’s “Continued Use of Tactics From a Bygone Era” In this latest version of APA President CA Eric Ferguson’s new video regarding the state of Section 6 negotiations between APA and American Airlines management, he cites management’s “continued use of ...

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