Sentence examples for striking pilots from inspiring English sources

The machinists union Friday sent United a letter that, in effect, threatened a sympathy strike if United proceeds with its plan to replace striking pilots by recruiting personnel from other airlines.

Later in the day in Toronto, Air Canada and its 2,100 striking pilots announced a tentative end to a nine-day strike that has crippled Canada's largest airline.

Air Canada and its striking pilots reached a tentative agreement tonight to end a nine-day strike that grounded the fleet of Canada's largest airline.

On April 8th, striking pilots began to man picket lines at 12 ports along the Mississippi and the Gulf coast, including St Louis, Houston, Mobile and Memphis.

Air Canada will resume contract talks with its 2,100 striking pilots Tuesday, an Air Canada spokeswoman, Nicole Couture-saidrd, said today.

threatened to shift or sell aircraft from its Comair commuter carrier if the unit's 1,400 striking pilots reject a settlement offer that they started voting on yesterday.

It secured a breakthrough in August after reaching a deal with striking Irish pilots and said it was hopeful it could secure deals in other markets.

Elected union representatives for the striking Comair pilots said yesterday that they would submit a proposed contract settlement to union members for a vote but are not endorsing the proposal.

." More than 150 times each year, Plumb, a 43-year-old former Navy fighter pilot, resurrects this kind of pain, pathos and gallows humor for quota-beleaguered salesmen, suicide-minded high school students, striking airline pilots or any other group willing to pay $2,000 plus expenses for 45 gripping minutes.

Consider this striking example: When pilots get a nap of just 30 minutes on long-haul flights, they experience a 16 percent improvement in their reaction time, in contrast to a 34 percent worsening in reaction time among non-napping pilots over the course of the flight.

He has dealt with, among others, striking lorry-drivers, airline pilots, doctors, schoolteachers, railwaymen.