Pennsylvania-based Business Travel Coalition is asking Congress and the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate Amerijet International. Sixty-two pilots and flight engineers went on strike Aug. 27 when one of the air cargo carrier’s planes lost cabin pressurization and was forced to dump 23,000 gallons of fuel into the waters off Miami.
Fatigued, overworked employees are protesting what they say are working conditions in one of the most congested airspaces on the planet that “are worse than the sweatshops of the 1930s” — and which put “schools, neighborhoods, the environment and the flying public at significant risk each and every day.”
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