Alaska Airlines pilots have been working without a contract for three years, and some of them are staging walkouts along the West Coast.
Soon, there will be pickets in Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Anchorage, and already, the airline has been forced to cancel flights. At Seattle-Tacoma International Airport alone, over 60 flights have been cancelled as of early Friday. Nationwide, the company reports 120 canceled flights comprising 9% of its total operations, with additional cancellations “possible over the weekend.”
That’s due to what Alaska Airlines is calling “a shortage of pilots which has created operational challenges.” It also says that it is “committed to reaching a collective
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