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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LONDON -- Thousands of disgruntled vacationers were stranded at Heathrow Airport yesterday after British Airways canceled scores of flights because of staff shortages and technical hitches.
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A glitch at U.S. Airways yesterday affected self-serve kiosks used by about two-thirds of the airlines' customers, causing long lines and delays that affected air travel even today.
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A two-hour computer outage affecting dispatch operations at United Airlines, a unit of UAL Corp., delayed nearly 270 domestic and international flights by the No. 2 U.S. carrier on Wednesday.
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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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US holiday travelers hoping to get back in the air after a weekend of flight cancellations due to computer malfunctions and staff shortages still faced difficulties getting to their destinations on Monday.
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British Airways cancelled four more flights due to what it called lingering problems from a staff shortage at London's Heathrow Airport which delayed thousands of travellers earlier in the week.
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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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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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Trying to avert another round of flight disruptions, airline is asking for volunteers from its nonunion workforce to work for free at its Philadelphia operations over New Year's weekend.
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Bankrupt US Airways UAIRQ.OB on  Wednesday said it is asking nonunion employees who are not  scheduled to work over the New Year's weekend to volunteer to  work for free at its Philadelphia operations.
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Already hit by multiple bankruptcies, consumer displeasure and out-of-control fuel prices, the US airline industry next year faces the prospect of its worst labor unrest in more than a decade.
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US Airwaysâ unions say the bankrupt airline is âbarking up the wrong treeâ by seeking to ensure its solvency by imposing a 23 percent pay cut on its workers.
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US Airways appealed to its employees to come to Philadelphia International Airport on their days off this weekend to help boost staffing, hoping to avoid the type of Christmas fiasco that left the airline with too few workers to fly all its planes and
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US Airways asked a bankruptcy judge yesterday to cancel labor contracts with three of its unions and impose much lower pay so it
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Flight attendants at bankrupt US Airways are gearing up for a possible nationwide strike, the Association of Flight Attendants said on Friday.
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For thousands of airline passengers, it took days for their bags to be delivered after a shortage of baggage handlers at US Airways, a computer problem at Comair and snowstorms disrupted holiday travel.