Members of Delta’s pilot union will be picketing outside airports across the country ahead of the holiday weekend to pressure the company to speed up its contract negotiations.
Why it matters: The union estimates that in an effort to meet the massive post-pandemic air travel demand, pilots are on track to have logged more overtime in the past few months than they did in all of 2018 and 2019 combined.
Driving the news: This is the first systemwide picket pilots have organized in a decade. At…