Worker Shortage Snarls U.S. Airways Flights
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Bankrupt US Airways late Saturday  blamed more than 300 canceled flights and thousands of pieces  of stranded luggage on the aftereffects of a heavy winter storm  and large numbers of workers who called in sick during the  crucial holiday travel period.
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A three-hour air traffic control outage that grounded hundreds of flights across the West on Tuesday also led to five close calls in which planes failed to keep
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The biggest U.S. airlines, struggling to cement their shaky recovery, face a rising challenge from angry unions looking to recoup billions in wages and pensions lost since 2001.
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LONDON  - Thousands of British Airways passengers have been stranded by cancelled flights and lengthy delays at Heathrow Airport because of staff shortages and technical problems at the airline.
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A cascading computer failure in the nation's air-traffic control system caused severe flight delays and some cancellations Friday along the East Coast.
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A rich record of employee discontent emerges from question-and-answer sessions at US Airways,  which encourages workers to ask tough questions.
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United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., on Wednesday said it was suffering "residual delays" some three hours after resolving a system-wide, computer failure that grounded its flights around the world.
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(InfoWorld) - United Airlines was forced to scrap 24 domestic flights Wednesday when the computers it uses to dispatch flights failed. The outage occurred between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. Central Time, causing delays across the country. In total, about 268 domestic and international flights were delayed, United said. The average delay time was an hour and a half. "We continue to work hard to resume operations by tomorrow morning and kindly ask for our customers' patience," the airline carrier said in a statement. United does not know what caused the outage but said that it "affected the systems that United uses to dispatch flights for departure." The glitch delayed five United flights at Las Vegas International Airport, said Richard Viera, general manager of United operations there. "We had a system outage, and we worked with local people from United along with people from headquarters," said Viera. The outage disrupted operations for about one-and-a-half hours, but no flights were cancelled, and Viera had no complaints from Las Vegas passengers. "It went pretty well," he said. By late afternoon, United flights were moving on time in Las Vegas. This is the second time this month that a computer malfunction has caused significant delays in the U.S. On June 8, one of the two systems used by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to manage flight plans failed, causing flight delays and cancellations across the country.
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US Airways, the most troubled of the nation's major airlines, has had to walk a tightrope the last few months, simultaneously talking tough to its unions while telling customers their frequent-flier miles are safe and the skies are still friendly.
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PHILADELPHIA - US Airways appealed to its employees to come to Philadelphia International Airport on their days off this weekend to help boost staffing levels, and ensure there are no echoes of the Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few
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British Airways today pledged to carry out an investigation into a staff shortage that sparked travel chaos at Heathrow Airport last week.
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Several hundred US Airways employees have volunteered to work at the airline&#39;s operation at Philadelphia&#39;s airport this holiday weekend, the Washington Post reports.
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PHILADELPHIA US Airways is asking employees to work for free and on their days off this weekend at Philadelphia International Airport.
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US airlines had the worst July for flight delays on record, as only 70 percent of flights arrived on time amid bad weather and a surge in traffic.
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More British Airways flights were canceled Wednesday after thousands were stranded by canceled flights at London&#39;s Heathrow Airport because of staff shortages at the airline.
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The biggest U.S. airlines,  struggling to cement their shaky recovery, face a rising  challenge from angry unions looking to recoup billions in wages  and pensions lost since 2001.
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Travelers at Philadelphia International Airport are hoping for the best but bracing for the worst this weekend after US Airways labor problems and