The APFA is the labor union representing the 24,000 American Airlines flight attendants at 11 crew bases across the United States.
Hartshorn said preventive measures the union has advocated for, like requiring masks onboard, better airplane cleaning and passing out hand sanitizer, have helped change the trajectory of cases among employees. Over the summer, it was a lot worse, Hartshorn said about airline workers contracting the virus. It s trending with the rest of the country right now.
Phyllis falls ill with COVID-19
George and Catherine hadn t seen Phyllis since Dec. 24 as he recovered from the virus. During that time, Phyllis had two work trips.
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JetBlue have unveiled their initial plans for code-sharing and marketing cooperation on routes out of New York and Boston, a partnership they announced last summer. The two airlines didn’t have much to say about how the partnership will affect the New York-San Francisco market, which they both serve from JFK (and JetBlue also serves from Newark), except to note that customers will see “enhanced schedules” between the two cities. They offered more detail about their Los Angeles-New York plans, also served by both carriers from JFK and by JetBlue from Newark: “Customers will have the most choices 14 daily flights between the two carriers and will have access to (American’s) state-of-the art Airbus A321T aircraft or JetBlue’s A321 aircraft featuring Mint,” they said. Ame
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (“DOT”) isn’t horsing around with its new rules governing service animals on commercial airline flights, which went into effect last week. In response to a growing backlash as to perceived fishy interpretations of what qualifies as a service animal, the new narrow rules will allow airlines to limit service animals to dogs that meet specific criteria. Under the new rules, airlines are not required to recognize emotional support animals as service animals and may treat them as pets. Therefore, the emotional support peacocks, pigs, cats, rabbits, miniature horses, monkeys, hamsters, and comfort turkeys will have to find a new means of transport.