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Sacramento Business Journal Fleet-service employees at US Airways Group Inc. have ratified a single contract that brings all the airline’s ramp and baggage employees into one labor agreement. The latest contract with about 7,700 ramp and baggage employees is valid through 2011. US Airways and America West Airlines merged in September [...]...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pilots at US AirwaysLCC have become the latest labor group to raise doubts about a possible merger with UALUAUA and its United Airlines unit. “Regarding United Airlines, their financial health is a major concern,” Stephen Bradford, president of the US Airline Pilots Association, said Friday in a prepared [...]...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — For the fourth time in four years, Doug Parker is actively chasing his dream of a game-changing airline merger. If there were to be a deal between US Airways, the company he runs, and UAL’s United, Parker would become an icon, a CEO who merged his way to the top of the industry. Four [...]...

By Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Airline shares gained ground Wednesday following new reports that the U.S. economy may not contract as much as originally thought. The Amex Airline Index rose 2.6% to end at 22.8 points with all but two of its 14 components trading higher. In this morning’s Wall Street [...]...

By JEFF BAILEY April 18, 2008 Pilots at US Airways ousted their union, the Air Line Pilots Association, on Thursday, replacing it with an insurgent group, a move that raised further questions about the carrier’s ability to combine operations after its 2005 merger with America West Airlines. The vote was closely watched because the issue that caused the [...]...