Tue, Jan 04, 2005
ALPA Calls Company A "Money Losing Operation"
If the Air Line Pilots Association has its way, the FAA will
shut down Boston-Maine Airways. The ALPA says the airline should
never have been granted "large jet aircraft authority" because
Boston-Maine is "a money losing operation."
Foster's Online reports the big beef appears to have been the
shutdown of Pan Am Airways in Pease, MA. Union pilots say the
airline was shut down solely because Boston-Maine began operating a
727 on a head-to-head basis with Pan Am. The ALPA says that was
also a blatant attempt on Boston-Maine's part to sidestep
unionization.
Pan Am and Boston-Maine are both operated by Guilford
Transportation.
The ALPA filing last Thursday said, "companies owned and managed
by the Mellon Group (owners of Guilford) have repeatedly
transferred work from unionized to nonunion groups to avoid their
collective bargaining obligations under the RLA (Railway Labor
Act), repeatedly discharged pilots because they were unwilling to
fly in violation of FAA safety rules, repeatedly refused to comply
with final and binding decisions of system boards of adjustment as
required under the RLA, and willfully violated environmental laws,"
according to Foster's.
"We assert that these repeated obvious violations show a lack of
necessary compliance disposition because the Guilford ownership
group has repeatedly and flagrantly failed to observe and respect
legal obligations," said ALPA attorney Marcus Migliore.
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