Ua hōʻike ka poʻe pailaka ʻo British Airways Plc i kēia lā ma ke keʻena poʻo ʻo Lākana e kūʻē i ka manaʻo o ka hui e hoʻomaka i kahi mokulele hou.
Ma kahi o 1,000 mau pailaka a me nā lālā o ko lākou ʻohana i hele aku i nā keʻena ʻo British Airways ma kahi kokoke i ke kahua mokulele ʻo London Heathrow, ma kahi kūʻē i hala ʻelua hola a me ka hapa, wahi a ka mea haʻiʻōlelo ʻo Keith Bill i kēia lā ma kahi ninaninau kelepona. Ua pani nā mākaʻi i ke alanui A4 no ka ʻae ʻana i nā mea hoʻokele.
Ua koho ka British Air Line Pilots Association, a i ʻole Balpa, e kuʻe i ka hui OpenSkies o BA, e lele ana ma waena o Paris a me Nu Ioka e hoʻomaka ana i Iune. Makemake ʻo British Airways e kiʻi i nā pailaka no ka ʻoihana hou mai waho o kona loko wai i kēia manawa, a ʻōlelo ka uniona e hoʻohana ʻo BA i ka ʻoihana no ka hoʻololi ʻana i ka uku a me nā kūlana hana no nā poʻe holo mokulele āpau.
"Makemake mākou i nā pailaka e lele ana e lilo i mau pailota BA," i ʻōlelo ai ʻo Jim McAuslan, ke kākau ʻōlelo nui o Balpa, i kēia lā ma kahi ninaninau kelepona i ka pau ʻana o ke kūʻē. "E pili ana i ka palekana hana, nā ʻoihana a me ka mahalo."
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo British Airways Luna Nui ʻo Willie Walsh e pono i ka mea lawe kaʻa hou ke kumu kūʻai haʻahaʻa inā ʻo ia e hoʻokūkū me nā mokulele ʻoihana nui. ʻO OpenSkies kahi ʻāpana o ka pane ʻana o ka mokulele i kahi ʻaelike European Union-US e hoʻokuʻu i ka huakaʻi ea trans-Atlantic e hoʻomaka ana i ka lā Malaki 31.
Hooiaio i na Pilota
Ua hāʻawi ka mokulele i nā hōʻoiaʻiʻo ʻaʻole e hoʻopilikia ʻo OpenSkies i nā uku a me nā ʻōlelo o nā pailaka nui. E hoʻohana ʻo OpenSkies i hoʻokahi mokulele Boeing Co. 757 e hana i ka lawelawe mua ʻo Paris-New York, e ulu ana i ʻeono mau mokulele ma ka hopena o 2009.
"Makemake ʻo British Airways e mālama i ko lākou maʻalahi - makemake ʻo ia i nā poʻe kaʻa ʻoihana no OpenSkies, e lanakila paʻakikī ana lākou a pono lākou e hana ma ka ʻoihana," wahi a John Strickland, ka luna o London-based aviation specialist JLS Consulting Ltd. me he mea lā ua hana lākou i ka mea maikaʻi loa e hoʻomaha i ka makaʻu o Balpa, akā ua hoʻohuli ʻia ka uniona e nā mea a lākou i ʻike ai ma ʻAmelika.
ʻO ka mea i kapa ʻia ʻo open-skies kuikahi e ʻae i nā mokulele EU e lele i US mai kekahi o nā mokulele o ka bloc, ma kahi o ko lākou ʻāina home. Hoʻopau pū ia i ka laka i loaʻa i ka British Airways a me ʻekolu mau mea lawe ʻē aʻe ma ka lawelawe US mai Heathrow, ke kahua mokulele ʻoi loa o ʻEulopa.
Ua koho ka poʻe hoʻokele Balpa e kuʻi ma Feb. 21. Ma lalo o ke kānāwai Pelekāne he 28 lā ka puka makani e hoʻomaka ai ka hele ʻana. Ua hoʻolōʻihi ka ʻAha Kiʻekiʻe o UK i ka lā palena ma hope o ka haʻihaʻi ʻana o nā kamaʻilio ma waena o nā ʻaoʻao ʻelua a ʻimi ka uniona e kāohi i kahi kauoha i hoʻoweliweli ʻia e ka mokulele.
Kāohi i ka hahau ʻana
Ke ho'āʻo nei ʻo British Airways e hoʻohana i ke kānāwai hoʻokūkū EU e pale aku i kahi hahau, e like me Balpa. Hāʻawi ke kānāwai i nā lāhui EU i ke kuleana e hoʻokumu i nā ʻoihana ma kekahi o nā ʻāina o ka poloka.
Hōʻike ʻo Balpa ma kahi o 3,000 o nā pailaka 3,200 o ka mokulele. Ua ʻōlelo ka Air Line Pilots Association, e kākoʻo ʻo ia i ka hōʻike ʻana a Balpa i kēia hopena pule ma ke koho ʻana ma nā mokulele US e like me New York's John F. Kennedy International, Washington Dulles, Los Angeles International, San Francisco International a me Seattle Tacoma International.
ʻO nā pailaka o American Airlines Inc. e piket ana ma ke kahua mokulele ʻo British Airways ma ke kahua mokulele ʻo John F. Kennedy i ka manawa like me ka huakaʻi kūʻē ma Lākana, wahi a McAuslan.
ʻo bloomberg.com
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- British Airways wants to recruit pilots for the new business from outside its current pool, and the union says BA will use the subsidiary to force changes to pay and working conditions for all of the airline’s flight crews.
- The British Air Line Pilots Association, or Balpa, has voted to strike in protest of BA’s OpenSkies unit, which will fly between Paris and New York starting in June.
- “They seem to have done their best to calm the fears of Balpa, but the union has been influenced by what they’ve seen in the States.
