A major sticking point, they said, is that the union wants a $348 million ratification bonus for pilots, at a three-year cost to the company of more than $1 billion.
Under the plan, on March 22 Virgin Australia will withdraw from its routes between Bali, Indonesia, and Australian cities Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth.
With this strategy, Hainan Airlines evidently aims to fill market demand it calculates as being unserved by Shanghai-based China Eastern, which has been slow in expanding its international business.
“Union leadership is reflecting on the tentative agreement,” Southwest spokesman Bob Hughes told Aviation Daily. “We will resume talks when they’re ready.”
CEO David Maimon said the board had “authorized the company to hold talks with Boeing over the acquisition of widebody Dreamliner aircraft for the purchase and lease of 15 planes in the next five years.”
Asia-Pacific airlines are forced to seek closer JV ties with U.S. carriers to gain better access to domestic U.S. routes that have become costly under traditional codeshare deals, Dunkerley said at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit in Sydney.
Plans for the service follow what the Taiwanese airline reports as success on seasonal services to Sydney and Brisbane in Australia, and Auckland and Christchurch in New Zealand.
Mackoviak’s statement came after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said in a televised speech that international investigators had already confirmed without a doubt that the flaperon was from the missing Boeing 777.
Alaska already offers more flights from Portland than any other airline, but it will use SkyWest’s Embraer 175s to introduce new competition on flights to Kansas City and Minneapolis-St. Paul from Feb. 18.
Dublin and Shannon are the only airports in Europe that currently have the customs, agriculture and immigration pre-clearance centers, which are operated and staffed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Until recently, the company’s credit card processors held back “significant” funds on every ticket sold, a policy that protected them against any refunds or chargebacks.
