{"id":112,"date":"2011-05-13T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/united-and-continental-working-on-plan-to-avoid-furloughs-for-cabin-crew\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T07:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:24:37","slug":"united-and-continental-working-on-plan-to-avoid-furloughs-for-cabin-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/united-and-continental-working-on-plan-to-avoid-furloughs-for-cabin-crew\/","title":{"rendered":"United and Continental Working on Plan to Avoid Furloughs for Cabin Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/continental-airlines-co\">Continental airlines<\/a>, in the midst of merging into one carrier, are working on a plan to avoid furloughs for United cabin crew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airlines\u2019 crew members are represented by two different unions and currently do not work on each other\u2019s flights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>However, United currently has too many workers and Continental will have too few when it adds new planes to its fleet next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airlines\u2019 parent company has asked its employees to come up with a crossover hiring program so United workers can join the Continental force in lieu of taking voluntary or involuntary furloughs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Get more information on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/united-airlines-ua\">United Airlines<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/7562828.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Chronicle <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United and Continental airlines, in the midst of merging into one carrier, are working on a plan to avoid furloughs for United cabin crew. &nbsp; The airlines\u2019 crew members are represented by two different unions and currently do not work on each other\u2019s flights. &nbsp; However, United currently has too many workers and Continental will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98907782,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/98907782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}