SOURCE: New Hampshire Union Leader http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=3D46503 Pan American Airlines shuts down, fires 30 pilots By JERRY MILLER Union Leader Correspondent NEWINGTON =E2=80=94 Pan American Airlines, a subsidiary of Guilford Transpo= rtation,=20 has gone out of business and fired its 30 union pilots. The carrier has transferred its flight operations to Boston-Maine Airways,= =20 another Guilford owned airline and a non-union operation. John Nadolny, Pan Am legal counsel and spokesman did not return calls seeki= ng=20 comment. However, an attorney for the Washington, D.C.-based Airline Pilots Associat= ion=20 said yesterday, the decision to disband Pan Am amounted to =E2=80=9Cunion b= usting=E2=80=9D on=20 the part of the parent company. =E2=80=9CAbsolutely,=E2=80=9D responded Marcus Migliore, when asked if he a= nd the 30=20 terminated pilots believe the carrier=E2=80=99s action was an attempt to br= eak the=20 union. =E2=80=9CThey continue to do exactly what the court said they couldn= =E2=80=99t do=20 under the Railway Labor Act.=E2=80=9D Migliore said the terminated pilots were not given the option of flying for= =20 Boston-Maine and were told in an Oct. 14 letter from Pan Am that they would= =20 be terminated Oct. 31. Migliore accused the carrier of defying a ruling, handed down recently by=20 Concord-based U.S. District Court Judge Joseph DiClerico. In his ruling, th= e=20 judge said Guilford=E2=80=99s attempt to shift work from Pan Am to Boston-M= aine is =E2=80=9Ca=20 direct attempt to destroy a union.=E2=80=9D In his late September order, DiClerico ordered Guilford to keep Pan Am flyi= ng=20 and to restore the pay and working conditions to Pan Am pilots and crews, t= o=20 the same level they were in July. The judge also prohibited Boston-Maine from flying Pan Am=E2=80=99s Boeing = 727=20 aircraft and other larger jet aircraft on routes that had been flown by Pan= =20 Am. Pan Am was also told it could not transfer its aircraft to Boston-Maine. =E2=80=9CThis is contrary to what the court ordered. That=E2=80=99s why we= =E2=80=99re going back to=20 court,=E2=80=9D Migliore said. The court proceeding, to hear the unions=E2=80=99 argument, is schedule in = U.S.=20 District Court, Concord, on Friday at 1:30 p.m. At the hearing, the Airline Pilots Association, which represents Pan Am=20 unionized pilots, will argue against the carrier=E2=80=99s decision to shif= t work=20 from Pan Am to the non-union Boston-Maine. David Mullen, the Pease Development Authority=E2=80=99s deputy director, sa= id to the=20 best of his knowledge, Pan Am=E2=80=99s Pease-based maintenance, which also= houses=20 Guilford=E2=80=99s corporate headquarters and Boston-Maine, remains operati= onal and=20 that the parent company continues to honor its contract with the PDA.=20 Guilford=E2=80=99s 20-year lease began Sept. 1, 1998, and will end Aug. 31,= 2018. Mullen acknowledges Pan Am, as an airline, is no longer flying from Pease. =E2=80=9CWe really weren=E2=80=99t brought into the picture,=E2=80=9D conce= rning Guilford=E2=80=99s decision=20 to end Pan Am as a commercial entity. Mullen said the only information the PDA was given came as the result of a= =20 recent e-mail from Nadolny, in which the attorney indicated Boston-Maine=20 would continue to fly from Pease. Mullen said at this time the Boston-Maine flight schedule from Pease Airpor= t=20 is =E2=80=9Csomewhat limited.=E2=80=9D Pease Airport Manager William Hooper could not be reached for comment=20 concerning the number of scheduled Boston-Maine flights per day and their=20 destinations. Boston-Maine has operated largely as a propeller driven commuter carrier,=20 while Pan Am handled longer distance jet aircraft service. Migliore said Boston-Maine is now using aircraft bearing the Pan Am logo,=20 without telling the public that Pan Am is no longer in business. Pan Am/Boston-Maine is the sole commercial carrier flying scheduled service= to=20 and from Pease. Guilford employs an estimated 300 workers at the tradeport,= =20 down from more than 400 a few years ago.