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October 01, 2005

O'Hare Expansion Halted Before It Begins

'Let's Go'... No, Wait

Hours after the city of Chicago received approval from the FAA to begin immediate construction on new runways and facilities intended to ease congestion at O'Hare International Airport, the US Court of Appeals halted the process to consider an emergency appeal from opponents to the expansion.

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"In our domestic fleet, [the proposal] would put us below all of our legacy peers, in or out of bankruptcy, and below regional carriers such as Comair. For what's proposed for people in our domestic fleet, some could make more money driving a truck, and that's not union rhetoric. That's the truth." Source: Airlines Capt. Mark McClain, chairman of Northwest's ALPA unit, quoted by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune after the airline demanded another $358 million in concessions from the pilots. On top of a 15-percent paycut agreed upon in December, this new request would take away another one-third of pilots' pay.