Reading Time: 2 minutes After contract negotiations broke down Sept 9, pilots for Fort Lauderdale-based Ultra LCC Spirit Airlines voted unanimously Sept. 13 to authorize a strike if further mediation efforts are unproductive. According to the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which represents Spirit pilots, if and when the National Mediation board (NMB) decides that additional talks are ineffectual, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute U.S.-based Cathay Pacific Airlines flight attendants joined the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA). In a union representation election that concluded January 26., the National Mediation Board (NMB) announced that 97% of the voters elected AFA as their collective bargaining representative. Cathay Pacific is the flag carrier of Hong Kong. Cathay Pacific operates multiple cabin crew […]