US Airways 2007 Annual Report Download - page 13

Table of Contents
Employees and Labor Relations
Our businesses are labor intensive. In 2007, wages, salaries and benefits represented approximately 23% of our operating expenses.
As of December 31, 2007, we employed approximately 39,600 active full-time equivalent employees. Of this amount, US Airways
employed approximately 34,400 active full-time equivalent employees including approximately 4,200 pilots, 7,300 flight attendants,
7,100 passenger service personnel, 7,500 fleet service personnel, 2,900 maintenance personnel and 5,400 personnel in administrative and
various other job categories. US Airways Group's remaining subsidiaries employed approximately 5,200 active full-time equivalent
employees including approximately 900 pilots, 500 flight attendants, 2,400 passenger service personnel, 400 maintenance personnel and
1,000 personnel in administrative and various other job categories.
A large majority of the employees of the major airlines in the United States are represented by labor unions. As of December 31,
2007, approximately 85% of our active employees were represented by various labor unions.
Since the merger, we have been in the process of integrating the labor agreements of US Airways and AWA. Listed below are the
integrated labor agreements and the status of the US Airways and AWA labor agreements that remain separate with their major domestic
employee groups.
Contract
Union
Class or Craft Employees(1) Amendable
Integrated labor agreements:
Airline Customer Service Employee Association — IBT and CWA (the
"Association") Passenger Service 7,100 12/31/2011
Transport Workers Union ("TWU") Dispatch 200 12/31/2009
TWU Flight Simulator Engineers 30 12/31/2011
TWU Flight Crew Training Instructors 80 12/31/2011
US Airways:
Air Line Pilots Association ("ALPA") Pilots 2,700 12/31/2009(2)
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA ("AFA") Flight Attendants 4,900 12/31/2011(3)
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers ("IAM") Mechanic and Related 2,100 12/31/2009(4)
IAM Fleet Service 4,500 12/31/2009(5)
IAM Maintenance Training Specialists 30 12/31/2009
AWA:
ALPA Pilots 1,500 12/30/2006(2)
AFA Flight Attendants 2,400 05/04/2004(3)
IAM Mechanic and Related 800 10/07/2003(4)
IAM Fleet Service 3,000 06/12/2005(5)
IAM Stock Clerks 60 04/04/2008(4)
(1) Approximate number of active full-time equivalent employees covered by the contract as of December 31, 2007.
(2) Pilots continue to work under the terms of their separate US Airways and AWA collective bargaining agreements.
(3) In negotiations for a single labor agreement applicable to both US Airways and AWA. On December 15, 2005, the National
Mediation Board recessed AFA's separate contract negotiations with AWA indefinitely.
(4) Mechanics and stock clerks continue to work under the terms of their separate US Airways and AWA collective bargaining
agreements.
(5) Fleet service agents continue to work under the terms of their separate US Airways and AWA collective bargaining agreements.
11