Union puts pressure on airline

THE flight attendants union at American Airlines is calling for a new vote on a concession package aimed at keeping the airline out of bankruptcy, saying its ratification a few days ago was tainted

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, which represents about a quarter of American’s 100,000-strong workforce, did not say when it plans to hold the new poll except that it would be done expeditiously, according to a statement of the union’s President John Ward. American said on Friday it would drop the contested compensation plans for its top executives, a day after another union threatened not to sign its concession pact.

The deals from labour are aimed at saving the world’s largest carrier $1.8 billion a year in personnel costs.