Ny runde med tilsvar i saken hos DOT.
Denver flyplass begynner å bli bekymret for at EU skal innføre sanskjoner som rammer alle og ber om en rask avklaring.
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We are concerned that further delay could prompt the Commission to take retaliatory
action thereby putting current Denver-Europe air service at risk.
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Travelers United kommer med kraftige beskyldninger om dobbeltmoral av de amerikanske selskapene og foreningene.
Selskapene benytter seg alle av "flag of convenience" og foreningene "gir blanke" i at Regional piloter tjener luselønn
mens de selv har millionlønninger.
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Flags of convenience are flown by all airlines
The US airline industry is rife with incorporations of convenience. Major carriers are headquartered and formed in Delaware
because they find that state to offer more favorable corporate governance rules. No major airline flies in or out of Delaware, of
which I am aware. In 2012, United and American Airlines were caught “...operating a "sham" office in the DeKalb County community
of Sycamore since 2001 after reaching an agreement to pay the town more than $300,000 a year a fraction of what it would have
owed in sales taxes in Chicago and Cook County.” And, this was after the City of Chicago provided United Airlines millions in tax breaks
to keep their headquarters in their city
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Airline unions should pay more attention to “fair wages” here at home. Airline union claims that they only want guarantees
of “fair wages and working conditions,” to be enforced by DOT. These same unions are perfectly happy to negotiate their pay at sixfigure
levels while at the same time they benefit from the abysmal salaries paid to regional airline pilots. The hypocrisy is palpable when mainline
carriers are paying pilots salaries in the range of hundreds of thousands while negotiating with regional carriers that are paying some pilots
less than twentyfive thousand dollars a year salary. Those regional carriers serve more than half of the mainline carrier’s domestic destinations.
Where is the earnest airline union concern for their brothers right here in the USA?
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