Xpress Jet Negotiations Update

The first session of contract negotiations were held on November 17th and 18th 2009 at Teamster Local 19’s offices in Houston.

The negotiations began with the company giving a detailed presentation of the corporate financial situation based on SEC filings and projections for the coming year. The upcoming flying for UAL was also discussed although the company still had not received details from United as of yet.

When contract proposals were discussed both sides engaged in open and productive analysis of the issues and with a few exchanges of proposal and counter proposals a tentative agreement was reached on Article 4, Seniority.
There was also discussion of Article 5, Filling of Vacancies with proposal and counter proposal exchanged.

Negotiations have been scheduled to resume in early January 2010.