AirTran Airways announced Thursday it has reached a tentative
agreement on terms of a new five-year pilot collective bargaining
agreement with the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).
AirTran Airways has more than 1,700 pilots represented by ALPA.
The Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association (SWAPA) received
official notice Thursday from the company that the negotiated
profitability-based raise in the pilots' contract has earned them a
3 percent raise for 2010.
A small airliner with 21 people, including the flight crew, on
board went down in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a
crocodile got away from the passenger that had smuggled it on board
causing what was described as panic on board the aircraft. Only one
person survived the accident.
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