{"id":375727,"date":"2020-09-29T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=375727"},"modified":"2020-09-29T09:05:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T03:35:30","slug":"united-airlines-pilots-agree-on-reduced-schedule-to-avert-2850-furloughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-airlines-pilots-agree-on-reduced-schedule-to-avert-2850-furloughs\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines&#8217; pilots agree on reduced schedule to avert 2,850 furloughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; United Airlines&#8217; pilots said on Monday they have voted to accept a deal that would keep all 13,000 of them employed through at least June 2021, averting 2,850 furloughs that were set for Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, United will spread a drastically reduced flying schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic across its entire pilot base to save jobs and reduce the need for costly and timely training once demand returns. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to avoiding furloughs, this agreement greatly enhances our ability to bounce back,&#8221; Bryan Quigley, United&#8217;s senior vice president of flight operations, said in a memo to employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; United Airlines&#8217; pilots said on Monday they have voted to accept a deal that would keep all 13,000 of them employed through at least June 2021, averting 2,850 furloughs that were set for Thursday. Under the agreement, United will spread a drastically reduced flying schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic across its entire pilot base to save jobs and reduce the need for costly and timely training once demand returns. &#8220;In addition to avoiding furloughs, this agreement greatly enhances our ability to bounce back,&#8221; Bryan Quigley, United&#8217;s senior vice president of flight operations, said in a memo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-375727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}