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4,800 personnel in administrative and various other job categories. Our Express subsidiaries, Piedmont and PSA, employed
approximately 4,700 active full-time equivalent employees, including approximately 800 pilots, 400 flight attendants, 2,700 passenger
service personnel, 400 maintenance personnel and 400 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, 2009,
approximately 87% of our active employees were represented by various labor unions. Relations between air carriers and labor unions in
the United States are governed by the Railway Labor Act (the "RLA"). Under the RLA, collective bargaining agreements generally
contain "amendable dates" rather than expiration dates, and the RLA requires that a carrier maintain the existing terms and conditions of
employment following the amendable date through a multi-stage and usually lengthy series of bargaining processes overseen by the
National Mediation Board ("NMB").
If no agreement is reached during direct negotiations between the parties, either party may request the NMB to appoint a federal
mediator. The RLA prescribes no timetable for the direct negotiation and mediation processes, and it is not unusual for those processes to
last for many months or even several years. If no agreement is reached in mediation, the NMB in its discretion may declare that an
impasse exists and proffer binding arbitration to the parties. Either party may decline to submit to arbitration, and if arbitration is rejected
by either party, a 30-day "cooling off" period commences. During or after that period, a Presidential Emergency Board ("PEB") may be
established, which examines the parties' positions and recommends a solution. The PEB process lasts for 30 days and is followed by
another 30-day "cooling off" period. At the end of a "cooling off" period, unless an agreement is reached or action is taken by Congress,
the labor organization may exercise "self-help," such as a strike, and the airline may resort to its own "self-help," including the imposition
of any or all of its proposed amendments and the hiring of new employees to replace any striking workers.
Since the merger, we have been in the process of integrating the labor agreements of US Airways and America West Airlines, Inc.
("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 Date
Integrated labor agreements:
International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers
("IAM") Fleet Service 6,100 12/31/2011
Airline Customer Service Employee Association — IBT and
CWA (the "Association") Passenger Service 6,200 12/31/2011
IAM Mechanics, Stock Clerks and Related 3,300 12/31/2011
IAM Maintenance Training Instructors 30 12/31/2011
Transport Workers Union ("TWU") Dispatch 200 12/31/2009
TWU Flight Crew Training Instructors 100 12/31/2011
TWU Flight Simulator Engineers 50 12/31/2011
US Airways:
US Airline Pilots Association ("USAPA") Pilots 2,600 12/31/2009(2)
Association of Flight Attendants-CWA ("AFA") Flight Attendants 4,700 12/31/2011(3)
AWA:
USAPA Pilots 1,500 12/30/2006(2)
AFA Flight Attendants 2,100 05/04/2004(3)
(1) Approximate number of active full-time equivalent employees covered by the contract as of December 31, 2009.
(2) Pilots continue to work under the terms of their separate US Airways and AWA collective bargaining agreements, as modified by the
transition agreements reached in connection with the merger.
(3) In negotiations for a single labor agreement applicable to both US Airways and AWA. On December 15, 2005, the NMB recessed
AFA's separate contract negotiations with AWA indefinitely. Flight attendants continue to
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