Groups Lobby Hill Today

Pro-merger airline workers: Hundreds of flight attendants, pilots, airport gate workers, mechanics and other employees of American Airlines and US Airways are set to flood the Hill today. The groups have more than 350 meetings with members’ offices to ask them to press DOJ to drop its suit against a proposed merger between the two airlines.

The unions also are planning a lunchtime press conference with Reps. Michael Burgess, Pat Meehan, Marc Veasey and Robert Pittenger. Not everyone is on board, though — flight attendants for American Eagle say they “are increasingly concerned about their future in the American/US Airways merger.”