Comair and the striking pilots of the Air Line Pilots Association reached a tentative agreement after 81 days of strike, a cut back of 37 aircrafts, and a reduction of 400 pilot positions. Sources say that both union and management were pressured to moderate their demands in fear that an extended strike would dissolve the airline company. Unions and other airlines followed the strike closely to see how the Bush administration would deal with the labor dispute.
See "Pilots Reach Tentative Deal with Comair", Matthew L. Wald, The New York Times, June 14, 2001