Pinnacle Airlines Inks Tentative Pact With United Steelworkers
April 6, 2010 (FinancialWire) — Pinnacle Airlines Corp.'s (NASDAQ: PNCL) wholly owned subsidiary, Pinnacle Airlines, Inc., said that it has reached a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers AFL-CIO to amend the collective bargaining agreement covering 930 Ground Operations employees in Memphis and other locations in the U.S. Ground Operations employees must now ratify the tentative agreement.
Tennessee-based Pinnacle Airlines Corp. is the parent company of Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. and Colgan Air, Inc.
Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. operates a fleet of 142 regional jets under Delta brands in the United States, Canada, the Bahamas, Mexico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands.
Colgan Air, Inc. operates a fleet of 48 regional turboprops as Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways Express.
Pinnacle Airlines Corp. operating units fly more than 1,280 daily flights and transport 13 million passengers a year to 158 cities and towns in North America.
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