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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Delta, Northwest pilots move toward restarting talks

Delta, Northwest pilots move toward restarting talks
The pilots unions at Delta and Northwest have made "some movement" toward resuming talks aimed at resolving seniority issues that have threatened to scuttle a possible merger between the airlines, said a person close to the negotiations. Without characterizing the progress, the person said the two groups have made overtures that could lead to talks aimed at reaching an elusive compromise on combining the pilot seniority lists of the two airlines, which have roughly 12,000 pilots represented by separate units of the Air Line Pilots Association. "There is common ground here," said the person, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the talks. The person said Lee Moak, chairman of ALPA's Delta unit, asked the union's national-level officials to become involved after talks with Northwest's union officials stalled last month.

 



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