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Spirit Airlines pilots, walked off the job this morning after the new contract can not agree terms.
All day flights, the airline, which flies from LaGuardia Airport and Atlantic City, canceled because of the strike - the first U.S. passenger airline for nearly five years. Pilots will picket outside the airline at 11:00 am SaturdayBoth sides continued talking through the night past their 12:01 a.m. strike deadline. The pilots' union wants Spirits pilots to be paid as much as their counterparts atJetBlue and Airtran. Pilots rejected a 30 percent pay increase over five years and a $3,000 signing bonus per pilot for a total cost of $70 million to the airline. The package offered by Spirit would have also allowed them to retain a four-day off break between each trip. The 53,000 member union -- Air Line Pilots Association -- is entirely behind the roughly 500 Spirit pilots on strike Spirit executives were disheartened by pilots' decision to reject the pay package.
All day flights, the airline, which flies from LaGuardia Airport and Atlantic City, canceled because of the strike - the first U.S. passenger airline for nearly five years. Pilots will picket outside the airline at 11:00 am SaturdayBoth sides continued talking through the night past their 12:01 a.m. strike deadline. The pilots' union wants Spirits pilots to be paid as much as their counterparts atJetBlue and Airtran. Pilots rejected a 30 percent pay increase over five years and a $3,000 signing bonus per pilot for a total cost of $70 million to the airline. The package offered by Spirit would have also allowed them to retain a four-day off break between each trip. The 53,000 member union -- Air Line Pilots Association -- is entirely behind the roughly 500 Spirit pilots on strike Spirit executives were disheartened by pilots' decision to reject the pay package.
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