Posted on 04/08/2008 9:20:29 PM PDT by Proud2BAmerican
Aloha cancels 7 round-trip cargo flights due to 'sick' pilots
Lender GMAC agrees to put in $3 million in new financing despite an impasse in labor talks
David Segal
dsegal@starbulletin.com
Nearly half of Aloha Airlines’ cargo flights last night were canceled after pilots called in sick amid “deteriorating” labor talks between the union and the company.
All U.S. Mail and time-sensitive goods were delivered, according to Aloha spokesman Stu Glauberman, who said the company was calling up reserve pilots today to assist with the flight schedule. Aloha was forced to cancel seven of 16 round-trip nighttime flights, but reported that all five round-trip daytime flights on Monday went off as scheduled. Glauberman said daytime flights today were operating normally.
On a peak day, the company flies 16 round trips at night and three to five round trips during the day.
In order to defuse the situation, the company’s primary lender, General Motors Acceptance Corp., said in a federal Bankruptcy Court hearing today that it would proceed with $3 million in new financing to allow the company to meet its March 31 payroll of $2.5 million and to pave the way for the auction process of the profitable cargo unit. A hearing on that auction is scheduled for April 24, with final approval set for the following day.
Air Lines PiIots Association attorney James Linsey, who said he didn’t know the reason behind the record number of cargo-flight cancellations, said the “cargo operations are breathing normally.”
Linsey said the central issue in the pilot talks are over the retention of Aloha pilots when the new owner of the cargo division takes over.
I’m going to laugh my ass off when this union completely blows this deal and they all become unemployed. These greedy idiots just never learn.
From LA to Honolulu is 2551 miles one way.
Math homework
If your letter travels from LA to the desk of the Royal HI Hotel by ship, how many weeks will it take to get the letter?
“From LA to Honolulu is 2551 miles one way.
Math homework
If your letter travels from LA to the desk of the Royal HI Hotel by ship, how many weeks will it take to get the letter?”
About 4 days.
The boat goes to Ensenada first, I know that.
How long does it take if you put it in a bottle and toss it in. (A non-union bottle.)
I had it at 5.3 days - the ships must be a lot faster these days.
If Aloha goes all the way under, the folks will have to get used to the old ways once again.
I live in Alaska and share much the same pain (slow shipping/high cost of shipping) as the folks in HI.
My air conditioning bill is a lot lower tho....
Based on this
“On April 18, a surfer south of Newport found a bottle containing a message written Aug. 3, 1998. A 19-year-old student had dropped it in the ocean off an island near Okinawa.”
I’d say, 5 to 7 years......
Well, calling in sick and grinding deliveries to a possible halt will certainly help their cause!
Is it my imagination or have unions screwed up every good thing they ever had?
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