ATW Daily News

ALPA: NWA will recall 150 pilots

Thursday November 9, 2006

Northwest Airlines intends to recall approximately 150 furloughed pilots by July 2007, according to the Air Line Pilots Assn., which issued a clarification in response to several press reports indicating the carrier was recalling "hundreds" of pilots. "The recall pace is expected to be steady throughout 2007 although the staffing situation is extremely fluid," ALPA said.

Separately, NWA flew 6.49 billion RPMs in October, a 0.2% rise over the year-ago month. Capacity fell 0.7% to 7.83 billion ASMs and load factor was up 0.7 point to 82.8%. Domestic traffic grew 2.5% to 3.43 billion RPMs against a 1.4% increase in capacity to 4.2 billion ASMs, lifting load factor 0.9 point to 81.7%. International RPMs were up 1.9% to 2.61 billion, ASMs rose 1.5% to 3.03 billion and load factor increased 0.3 point to 86.1%.

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