Flight Attendants

The deal would address compensation and retroactive pay, among other things. It comes after more than 99% of flight attendants agreed to strike if necessary.

The contract comes with a 22% snap-up raise.

TWU Local 556 says the union's executive board will send the tentative agreement to its members March 25.

Flight attendants unions representing more than 100,000 members have organized the largest collective action in aviation history. It's scheduled for Tuesday.

Flight attendants at Southwest Airlines are saying no to a contract offer hammered out by their union and the airline. Southwest is also negotiating with pilots, who have tried twice to get permission to start a 30-day countdown to a strike.

There will be no strike by American Airlines flight attendants around the Christmas and New Year's holidays. Federal mediators have rejected a request by the attendants' union to begin a 30-day countdown toward a strike.

Southwest Airlines flight attendants are set to vote on a new contract for its nearly 19,000 attendants, nearly five years after their last contract was effective.

The Fort Worth-based airline saw a revenue loss of more than half a billion dollars in the third quarter of the year.

Of the more-than-26,000 workers in the union, 99.4% voted to authorize a strike if union leaders could not reach a deal with the carrier later this year.

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants board of directors voted unanimously this week to allow the group’s negotiating committee to conduct a strike authorization vote.

The flight attendants have been working without a contract since December 2019.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines plans to reintroduce in-flight alcohol sales next week for the first time in nearly two years despite concerns over the high number of incidents involving unruly passengers.