A Leader Running Out of Road There is something almost theatrical about watching the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) President Sara Nelson lecture airline CEOs about how labor deals should be done given that United flight attendants have been working without a new contract since August 2021. Under her leadership, they have endured four years of stalled negotiations, stagnant wages, and false promises. The only output from AFA-CWA to date has been a tentative agreem

The CEO that 28,000 flight attendants want fired just got a public endorsement from the most powerful flight attendant in the world. Here's what's really going on. Less than two weeks after American Airlines' mainline flight attendant union issued the first vote of no confidence against a CEO in its nearly 50-year history, something remarkable happened: Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) and widely regarded as the most influential labor l

Earlier this month, Delta Air Lines rewarded employees with a whopping $1.4 billion bonus, as part of its annual profit-sharing scheme....

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The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), which represents 4,100 flight attendants at Frontier Airlines, filed for federal...

United Airlines flight attendants picketed at 17 airports worldwide on Thursday, April 11. Their widespread protest coincided with a...

A particularly low on-time performance (OTP) rating for 2023 is prompting Frontier Airlines to transform its operating model. But the...

Frontier Airlines is reorganizing its schedules so that planes do more out-and-back trips, instead of flying all over their system. That...