The votes for the AMFA – Southwest Airlines Seniority Integration Package Referendum were tallied on February 21, 2012. Ballots for this referendum were counted and certified by TrueBallot, Inc. The results are as follows: 

An election is being conducted under the Railway Labor Act (RLA) for the craft or class of Mechanics & Related Employee, employees of Horizon Air, sought to be represented by the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association, and presently represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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The votes for the AMFA – Southwest Airlines Letters of Agreement (LOAs) Referendum were tallied on February 14, 2012. Ballots for this referendum were counted and certified by TrueBallot, Inc. The results are as follows:

The votes for the AMFA – Southwest Airlines Facilities Maintenance Technician Letters of Agreement (LOA) Referendum were tallied on February 14, 2012. Ballots for this referendum were counted by AMFA National, and the ballot count was certified by a Notary Public. The results of the referendum are as follows:

Facilities Maintenance LOA - Accepted

Efforts by the FAA, airlines, and others have reduced the chances of a plane crashing and killing someone by 93 percent

By Alan Levin

Since the Jet Age began in the 1950s, air travel in the U.S. has never been safer. It’s been a decade since passengers have died in the crash of an airliner carrying more than 100 people, and there hasn’t been a deadly crash of a plane with more than 10 seats since a Colgan Air flight bound for Buffalo went down in February 2009. It’s a dramatic turnaround. From July 1994 to January 1997, an airliner crashed at least once every three months, killing a total of 805 people. “It was overwhelming,” says Frank Tullo, a former vice-president for flight operations at Continental Airlines. “They were falling out of the sky.”