 | AirTran
Pilots joined ALPA: 2009
Number of pilots: 1,500+
Pilot domiciles: Atlanta, Ga.; Milwaukee, Wisc.; and Orlando, Fla.
Headquarters: Dallas, Tex.
Operations/services: AirTran Airways, a wholly owned subsidiary of Southwest Airlines Co., offers coast-to-coast and near-international service with close to 600 flights a day to 54 destinations
Fleet: 88 B-717s and 41 B-737s |
|
 | Air Transat
Pilots joined ALPA: 1999
Number of pilots: 436 (including furloughees)
Headquarters: Pierre E. Trudeau International Airport, Montreal, P.Q.
Pilot bases: Montreal, P.Q.; Toronto, Ont.; and Vancouver, B.C.
Fleet: 11 A310s and 12 A330s |
|
 | Air Transport International
Crewmembers joined ALPA: November 2009
Number of pilots: 240, with 150 on furlough
Operations: Combi passenger, military, and cargo operations around the world
Base: Home-based
Corporate headquarters: Little Rock, Ark.
Fleet: Currently operates three DC-8 combis and three B-767s |
|
 | Air Wisconsin
Pilots joined ALPA: 1982 as a result of the Union of Professional Airmen merger with ALPA
Number of pilots: 665
Operations: Nearly 500 daily departures to 26 states and 3 Canadian provinces; with service to 70 cities throughout North America, the airline carries nearly 6 million passengers per year
Headquarters: Appleton, Wisc.
Domiciles: New York, N.Y. (LGA); Norfolk, Va. (ORF); Philadelphia, Pa. (PHL); and Washington, D.C. (DCA)
Fleet: 71 Canadair 50-seat regional jets (CRJ200s) |
|
 | Alaska
Pilots joined ALPA: April 6, 1967
Number of pilots: 1,472
Operations: 95 destinations with 436 daily departures in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. This includes 40 markets flown by Horizon Air, which provides traffic feed to Alaska Airlines under a capacity-purchase agreement. During recent years, Alaska has added new destinations to expand its network from its main hub in Seattle, Wash., as well as from its hubs in Anchorage, Alaska; Los Angeles, Calif.; and Portland, Ore.
Fleet: An all-Boeing fleet of 24 737-400s, 17 -700s, 58 -800s, 12 -900s, 2 -900ERs, 5 -400Cs, and 1 -400 freighter |
|
 | American Eagle
Pilots joined ALPA: 1995 (although Simmons had been an ALPA member since 1986, after the National Mediation Board’s 1995 ruling that the four airlines serving American Airlines—Executive, Flagship, Simmons, and Wings West—constituted a single airline, the Eagle pilots established a single MEC)
Number of pilots: 3,000
Pilot domiciles: Chicago, Ill.; Dallas/Ft. Worth, Tex.; Miami, Fla.; JFK and LGA, N.Y.; and San Juan, P.R.
Operations: More than 1,700 daily flights to more than 150 cities throughout the United States, Canada, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, and Mexico
Headquarters: Ft. Worth, Tex.
Fleet: CRJ700s, EMB-135s, EMB-140s, EMB-145s, and ATR 72s |
|
 | Atlantic Southeast
Pilots joined ALPA: 1987
First ALPA contract: 1989
Number of pilots: 1,477
Headquarters: Atlanta, Ga.
Pilot bases: Dulles, Va.; Atlanta, Ga.; Detroit, Mich.
Fleet: 112 CRJ200s, 46 CRJ700s, and 10 CRJ900s |
|
 | Bearskin
Pilots joined ALPA: 1997 (became an ALPA-represented pilot group when CALPA merged with ALPA)
Number of pilots: 72
Pilot bases: Thunder Bay, Ont.; Winnipeg, Man.; Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.; and Sioux Lookout, Ont.
Headquarters: Sioux Lookout, Ont.
Operations: Scheduled and charter passenger service
Fleet: 18 Metroliners |
|
 | Calm Air
Pilots joined ALPA: 1997
Number of pilots: 95, with 9 on furlough
Operations: Scheduled passenger and cargo service throughout northern Manitoba and Nunavut, the newest and largest territory in Canada, including destinations along the western shores of Hudson Bay and into the high Arctic
Pilot bases: Thompson, Man., and Winnipeg, Man.
Headquarters: Thompson, Man.
Fleet: 1 Hawker Siddeley HS748, 2 ATR 72s, 6 ATR 42s, and 2 30-seat Fairchild Dornier D328 jets
Fun fact: The name “Calm Air” was not chosen to embody smooth flying—it’s an acronym of the founder’s initials: Carl Arnold Lawrence Morberg |
|
 | Canadian North
Pilots joined ALPA: 2006
Number of flightcrew members: 133
Bases: Edmonton and Calgary, Alb.
Headquarters: Yellowknife, NT
Operations: Scheduled flights and cargo services throughout Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, as well as charter operations throughout Canada and the United States
Fleet: B-737-200s, B-737-300s, and Dash 8-100s |
|
 | CanJet
Pilots joined ALPA: 2006
Number of pilots: Approximately 130
Operations: Provides subcontracting services to vacation charter airlines
Fleet: 5 B-737-800s and 7 B-737-800s leased during high season |
|
 | Capital Cargo
Pilots joined ALPA: 2007
Number of flightcrew members: 115, with 68 on furlough
Headquarters: Orlando, Fla.
Operations: Capital Cargo is an aircraft, crew, maintenance, and insurance (ACMI) carrier that provides airport-to-airport cargo transportation services both domestically and internationally
Crewmember bases: Home-based
Hub city: Cincinnati, Ohio
Fleet: Currently operates B-757-200 PCFs—all aircraft are freighter conversions |
|
 | CommutAir
Founded: 1989
Number of pilots: Approximately 190
Pilots joined ALPA: 2008
Headquarters: South Burlington, Vt.
Pilot bases: Cleveland, Ohio; Newark, N.J.; and Dulles, Va.
Operations: CommutAir flies to more than 25 cities in the Midwest, Northeast, and Canada under a capacity-purchase agreement with United Airlines
Fleet: 16 37-seat Dash 8-Q200s and 5 50-seat Dash 8-Q300s |
|
 | Compass
Founded: Compass Airlines was created as a Northwest Airlines subsidiary and began operations on May 2, 2007
Pilots joined ALPA: 2007
Number of pilots: 440
Sale and acquisition: On July 1, 2010, Delta Air Lines sold Compass to Trans States Holdings, Inc., which is running it separately from its other airlines, Trans States and GoJet
Operations: More than 190 flights daily to 57 destinations throughout the United States and Canada as Delta Connection
Pilot bases: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., and Detroit, Mich.
Headquarters: Minneapolis, Minn.
Fleet: 36 Embraer E175s and 6 Embraer E170s |
|
 | Continental
Pilots rejoined ALPA: June 2001
Number of pilots: 5,019
Pilot bases/hubs: Newark, N.J.; Houston, Tex.; Cleveland, Ohio; Guam; Los Angeles, Calif.; Denver, Colo.; and Chicago, Ill.
Headquarters: Chicago, Ill.
Fleet: B-787-8s/-9s, B-777-200ERs, B-767-200ERs/-400ERs, B-757-200s/-300s, and B-737-500s/-700s/-800s/-900s/-900ERs |
|
 | Delta
Number of pilots: 11,997
Pilots joined ALPA: August 1, 1940
Joint ventures and alliances: Delta is a member of the SkyTeam Alliance and participates in joint ventures with Air France-KLM-Alitalia and Virgin Australia
Operations: Delta and its Connection carriers fly to more than 331 destinations in 60 countries on six continents
Pilot bases: Atlanta, Ga.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Detroit, Mich.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.; New York City; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Seattle, Wash.
Hub cities: Amsterdam; Atlanta; Cincinnati; Detroit; Memphis, Tenn.; Minneapolis–St. Paul; New York (JFK); Paris (CDG); Salt Lake City; and Tokyo (Narita)
Headquarters: Atlanta, Ga.
Fleet: More than 700 mainline airplanes: A319s, A320s, A330s, B-737s, B-747s, B-757s, B-767s, B-777s, DC-9s, MD-88s, and MD-90s |
|
 | Evergreen
Flightcrew members joined ALPA: 2007
Number of flightcrew members: 214, with 135 on furlough
Headquarters: McMinnville, Ore.
Pilot base: New York (JFK)
Operations: With a fleet of 5 B-747s, Evergreen specializes in charter and contract freighter operations around the globe |
|
 | ExpressJet
Pilots joined ALPA: 2004
Number of pilots: More than 2,800
Operations: Flies as United Express to 42 states plus destinations in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean
Pilot bases: Chicago, Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio; Houston, Tex.; and Newark, N.J.
Headquarters: Atlanta, Ga.
Fleet: 249 airplanes, including ERJ135s and ERJ145s |
|
 | FedEx
Pilots joined ALPA: June 1993–1996; rejoined ALPA in June 2002
First ALPA contract: October 2006
Number of flightcrew members: 4,581
Headquarters: Memphis, Tenn.
Fleet: 35 B-727s, 77 B-757s, 21 B-777s, 71 A300s, 35 A310s, 69 MD-10s, and 64 MD-11s |
|
 | First Air
Founded: 1946, as Bradley Air Service, now owned by Makivik Corporation
Number of crewmembers: 142
Pilots joined ALPA: 2008
Pilot bases: Ottawa, Ont.; Yellowknife, NT; Iqaluit, NU; and Edmonton, Alb.
Headquarters: Kanata, Ont.
Operations: Provides scheduled passenger and cargo service between 30 northern communities plus charter service worldwide
Fleet: 7 B-737-200s (four combi), 1 B-767F, 9 ATR 42-300s, 2 ATR 72-212s (all combi), and 2 Lockheed L-382 Hercules |
|
 | Hawaiian
Number of pilots: 625
Headquarters: Honolulu, Hawaii
Bases: Honolulu and Seattle, Wash.
Operations: Hawaiian operates more than 150 daily flights between Oahu, Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii. It offers nonstop service to the Hawaiian islands from 10 cities on the U.S. mainland and also has direct, nonstop flights from Honolulu to American Samoa, Tahiti, Australia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan. In 2013 it will be the first U.S. airline to fly to New Zealand and also plans to serve China in future years
Fleet: 18 B-717-200s; 4 B-767-300s; 12 B-767-300ERs; and 9 A330-200s, with 3 more to be delivered. Firm orders: 6 A350-300X, to be delivered 2017–2020. The airline is also acquiring 2 ATR 42-500s and wants to purchase as many as 12 B-737 MAXs or A320 NEOs |
|
 | Island Air
Pilots joined ALPA: 1989
Number of pilots: 50
Operations: Approximately 36 daily flights plus charter service to seven airports throughout Hawaii
Service: Island Air is Hawaii’s leading regional airline, serving airports on all major Hawaiian islands with 331 weekly flights between the islands of Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kauai, and the island of Hawaii
Fleet: 4 Dash 8-100s |
|
 | Jazz
Pilots joined ALPA: 1997
Number of pilots: 1,521
Operations: Jazz transports approximately 9.1 million passengers annually on 800 daily flights to 82 destinations across Canada and the United States
Pilot bases: Vancouver, B.C.; Calgary, Alb.; Toronto, Ont.; Montreal, Que.; and Halifax, N.S.
Headquarters: Halifax, N.S.
Fleet: 127 aircraft, including Bombardier Dash 8-100/300s, Bombardier CRJ 100/200/705s, and Bombardier Q400s |
|
 | Kelowna Flightcraft
Pilots joined ALPA: 1997 (became an ALPA-represented pilot group when CALPA merged with ALPA)
Number of pilots: 125
Headquarters: Kelowna, B.C.
Pilot bases: Hamilton, Ont.; Vancouver, B.C.; Halifax, N.S.; Thunder Bay, Ont.; Regina, Sask.; Calgary, Alb.; and Kelowna, B.C.
Fleet: B-727s, Convair 580s, and DC-10s |
|
 | Mesa Air Group
Pilots joined ALPA: 1987
Number of pilots: Approximately 800, including 211 on furlough
Operations: Mesa Air Group includes go! and Mesa Airlines, and operates as United Express and US Airways Express under contractual agreements and independently as go! in Hawaii. Serves 96 cities, 37 states, Canada, and Mexico with 465 daily departures
Bases: Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago, Ill.; Honolulu, Hawaii; Kahului, Hawaii; Lihue, Hawaii; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Washington, D.C.
Headquarters: Phoenix, Ariz.
Fleet: 62 airplanes, including CRJ200s, CRJ700s, and CRJ900s |
|
 | North American Airlines
Pilots joined ALPA: 2009
Number of pilots: 150
Pilot base: New York (JFK)
Headquarters: Peachtree City, Ga.
Operations: Provides air transportation services throughout the world, operating both charter and scheduled service for the U.S. military, tour operators, government agencies, and sports teams, among others, and as an ACMI carrier for other scheduled airlines
Fleet: 5 B-767-300ERs |
|
 | Piedmont
Pilots joined ALPA: 1984
Number of pilots: 344
Headquarters: Salisbury, Md.
Pilot domiciles: New Bern, N.C.; Charlottesville, Va.; Roanoke, Va.; Harrisburg, Pa.; and Salisbury, Md.
Fleet: 44 DHC-8s |
|
 | Pinnacle
Pilots joined ALPA: 1988 (as Express Airlines I before it changed its name to Pinnacle in 2002); purchased Colgan Air in 2007 and Mesaba Airlines in 2010
Number of pilots: 2,467
Operations: More than 800 daily flights for Delta Air Lines to 110 airports across the United States and Canada
Pilot domiciles: Atlanta, Ga.; Detroit, Mich.; Memphis, Tenn.; Minneapolis, Minn.; New York’s JFK; Boston, Mass.; and Newark, N.J.
Headquarters: Memphis, Tenn.
Fleet: 141 Canadair CRJ200s and 55 CRJ900s |
|
 | PSA
Pilots joined ALPA: 1988
Number of pilots: Approximately 500
Operations: PSA is a wholly owned subsidiary of US Airways Group. It operates 327 flights per day as US Airways Express, serving 65 airports in the U.S.
Bases: Charlotte, N.C., Dayton, Ohio; and Knoxville, Tenn.
Headquarters: Dayton, Ohio
Fleet: 35 CRJ200s and 14 CRJ700s |
|
 | Ryan
Pilots joined ALPA: 1998
Number of pilots: 211 (including furloughees)
Pilot domicile: Rockford, Ill.
Operations: Ryan International Airlines (not to be confused with Ireland-based Ryanair) provides scheduled and charter services for customers around the globe
Fleet: 1 A330-200 and 2 B-767-300ERs |
|
 | Spirit
Pilots joined ALPA: 1996
Number of pilots: 657
Headquarters: Miramar, Fla.
Pilot domiciles: Atlantic City, N.J.; Detroit, Mich.; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and Las Vegas, Nev.
Fleet: 27 A319s, 16 A320s, and 2 A321s |
|
 | Sun Country
Pilots joined ALPA: 1996
Founded: 1982
Number of pilots: 184
Pilot base: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.
Operations: Based in Mendota Heights, Minn., Sun Country flies scheduled service to 32 destinations, 11 of which are served year-round. The airline also operates charter flights to numerous locations in the continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom. The airline is also actively seeking military charter flying and is a member of the Department of Defense’s Civil Reserve Air Fleet
Fleet: 15 B-737NGs, with 3 more planned for 2013 and more aircraft leased seasonally |
|
 | Trans States
Pilots joined ALPA: 1993
Signed first ALPA contract: 1994
Number of pilots: 260
Operations: More than 150 daily flights to 39 cities, serving more than 2.1 million passengers annually while flying as United Express and US Airways Express
Pilot domiciles: St. Louis, Mo., and Washington Dulles, Va.
Headquarters: St. Louis, Mo.
Fleet: 22 EMB-145s |
|
 | United
Pilots joined ALPA: 1932
Number of pilots: Approximately 7,500 (1,436 on furlough)
Headquarters: Chicago, Ill.
Pilot domiciles: Washington Dulles, Va.; Chicago, Ill.; Seattle, Wash.; Denver, Colo.; San Francisco, Calif.; New York (JFK), and Los Angeles, Calif.
Fleet: A319s, A320s, B-747s, B-757s, B-767s, and B-777s |
|
 | Wasaya
Pilots joined ALPA: 2008
Number of pilots: 77
Hub: Thunder Bay, Ont.
Pilot domiciles: Thunder Bay, Ont.; Pickle Lake, Ont.; Sioux Lookout, Ont.; Timmins, Ont.; and Red Lake, Ont.
Operations: Thunder Bay, Ont.; Pickle Lake, Ont.; Sioux Lookout, Ont.; Timmins, Ont.; and Red Lake, Ont.
Fleet: 27 airplanes, including Beech 1900Ds, Cessna C-208Bs, Hawker Siddeley HS748s, Pilatus PC-12s, and Dash 8s |