Judge allows U.S. opposed changes to the pilots
A federal judge ruled Thursday that United Airlines can move forward with changes in flight procedures that the pilots' union had opposed because of safety concerns.
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United said it would implement the change on Friday as planned.
The Air Line Pilots Association at United had said in a court filing Monday that they have not had enough time to get used to new procedures for situations such as what to do when they are caught in a gust of strong wind or which driver that manages jobs in the cockpit. The union argued that a slide show of 54 minutes of the new procedure was inadequate.
Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. in Brooklyn, NY, dismissed the application for a temporary order. He wrote that there is no evidence that the Federal Aviation Administration failed to monitor the formation of the airline. His order also stated that the new procedures would not cause irreparable harm to the pilots – a legal threshold for a restraining order.
United and Continental Airlines are managed by United Continental Holdings Inc., which is to combine them into one airline. This means that the merger of the operating procedures used by pilots and flight attendants and ground crews.
Wendy Morse, a 777 captain and head of the United branch of ALPA, said the union would work with the airline on "industry practice of training and safety in mind as was previously the case U.S. to correct this realistic training plan and inadequate. "
Continental United, spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said his flight procedures are "widely used in industry, were developed in close cooperation with Boeing, and are reviewed and approved by the FAA."
Shares of Chicago-based company fell 28 cents to $ 20.48 in trading in the afternoon.
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