1. Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention. 2. AMR Corp., facing a possible pilots strike by mid-February, again offered to settle the contract dispute through arbitration. 3. And a week ago, a pilots strike canceled all flights out of Scandinavia. 4. A year ago, Northwest was days away from a two-week pilots strike. 5. But Clinton, who ended a pilots strike at American Airlines last year, has declined to step in. 6. Comair, a Cincinnati commuter carrier owned by Delta, is now in the seventh week of a pilots strike. 7. In addition, the carrier has stepped up efforts to improve its service in the wake of a brief pilots strike this spring that scared away passengers. 8. Many passengers avoided the carrier this weekend for fear of being stranded by a pilots strike. 9. Meanwhile, fallout from a September pilots strike weighed heavily on Northwest Airlines, which has a maintenance base in Atlanta. 10. President Clinton put a quick end to a pilots strike at American Airlines on Friday night, taking action just minutes after union leaders declared their walkout. |