Airline Hiring Practices

II. Methodological Considerations.

A. Airline Ownership Classifications.

B. Airlines Included in the Examination.

III. Airline Employment Practices.

B. Employee Involvement in Downsizing Decisions.

H. Employment Practices At Subsidiary Carriers.

HIRING PRACTICES IN THE AMERICAN AIRLINE INDUSTRY

Subsequent to the completion of the airline deregulation program almost 15 years ago both the market structure and the ownership structure of the industry were transformed. Deregulation brought about a rush of new airline companies into the industry. In 1978, the last full year of operation prior to the initiation of deregulation, there were 248 airline companies in the United States (FAA opens, 1985, p. 1). By the end of the first full year of deregulation, there were 349 such companies.

By the end of the second full year of deregulation, however, some carriersùmany old lineùhad failed or were on the verge of financial failure. By early 1983, the industry had developed into one in which approximately six major carriers accounted for the bulk of the trunk traffic w

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made only a half-hearted effort in this direction, while the remaining major airlines did not consider employee suggestions. Since the carriers employees assumed ownership control of the carrier in 1994, however, United has been hiring additional pilots and flight attendants (Feldman, 1995, p. 48). As a part of the purchase agreement, however, United employees accepted wage reductions in return for stock in the carrier. Airline managers are having a difficult time in the mid-1990s in justifying the case for continued cost-cutting through personnel reductions in the face of record profits (Feldman, 1995, p. 47). Labor contracts across the airline industry will expire in 1996 and 1997, and the scorched-earth human resource policies followed by most of the major airlines in the 1990s are not likely to be tolerated by employees this time around. In 1993, Northwest Airlines traded three-year wage concessions for some degree of employee ownership (Feldman, 1995, p. 48). Since that time, the airline additional pilots and flight attendants. Employee productivity in all employment classifications has improved at Northwest Airlines. At USAir, however, management, in spite of severely reduced pilot and mechanic employment levels, co
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