{"id":95785509,"date":"2010-10-01T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/united-and-continental-merger-complete-union-pacts-to-take-a-year\/"},"modified":"2014-08-04T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T09:14:45","slug":"united-and-continental-merger-complete-union-pacts-to-take-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/united-and-continental-merger-complete-union-pacts-to-take-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"United and Continental Merger Complete: Union Pacts to Take a Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"United Continental merger completed: Union pacts to take a year (Image: United Airlines) \" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2010\/10\/UnitedAirlinesMerger.jpg\" alt=\"United Continental merger completed: Union pacts to take a year (Image: United Airlines) \" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Smisek says union pacts can take a year or more <\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The head of the new United Airlines announced Friday that union rules are slowing down the company by prohibiting it from flying larger regional jets, a key issue as the world\u2019s largest carrier begins an integration process anticipated to last up to 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Smisek, chief executive of United Continental Holdings Inc., said it would take at minimum, a year to secure new joint collective bargaining agreements with staff at the legacy Continental and United airlines, which merged Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new deal hammered out with pilots will be important in determining the future size and shape of the new airline, with flight crews pushing for a team that limits outsourcing of lying to regional partners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: The Wall Street Journal <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Smisek says union pacts can take a year or more &nbsp; The head of the new United Airlines announced Friday that union rules are slowing down the company by prohibiting it from flying larger regional jets, a key issue as the world\u2019s largest carrier begins an integration process anticipated to last up to 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95785509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168471,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785509\/revisions\/97168471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}