Posts Tagged ‘ American Airlines ’

Message to US Airlines ‘Wake Up and Reduce In-Flight Consumer Waste!’

January 28, 2012
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Join Green America in asking U.S. airlines to recycle As concerned consumers, we believe that it is important for us to know that the airline companies with which we travel help reduce consumer waste by implementing recycling programs. Overall, airlines have the capacity to recycle nearly 500 million more pounds of waste each year, including 250 million pounds of in-flight waste. Additionally, nearly 75% of in-flight generated waste is recyclable; however only about 20% of that waste actually is...

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Alec Baldwin stirs up the ‘electronics on an airliner’ safety debate

December 7, 2011
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Baldwin dust-up sparks debate about electronics on planes Actor Alec Baldwin’s removal from an American Airlines plane Tuesday for playing a game on his cellphone has sparked discussion among experts and frequent fliers at odds over being required to shut off electronic devices during takeoff and landing. Federal Aviation Administration rules state that no airline or pilot may allow passengers to operate “any portable electronic device” on an operating aircraft. Nonetheless, airlines often allow passengers to use laptops and other devices that...

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American Airlines files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

November 29, 2011
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American Airlines and parent AMR will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday, AMR announced. Chairman and chief executive Gerard Arpey has resigned as well. The AMR board picked Tom Horton, currently AMR and American Airlines president. Horton was picked by Arpey in 2010 as president, and Arpey recommended to the board that Horton replace him as chairman and CEO. One person said the AMR board has asked Arpey to remain in his job and guide the airline through the...

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Snoozing Air Traffic Controller leaves jetliners to land without clearance at Reagan National Airport

March 23, 2011
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From ‘The Wall Street Journal’ Air Controller’s Silence Draws Safety Probe Federal air-safety officials are looking into why the lone air-traffic controller on duty at Washington’s Reagan National Airport early Wednesday repeatedly failed to respond to pilots of two approaching aircraft, forcing both jetliners to land without clearance. The veteran controller later acknowledged he may have been dozing, according to people familiar with the matter, just before and after midnight when the incoming jetliners were preparing to land. Pilots...

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O’Hare Deal Looks Good for Virgin America and JetBlue

February 9, 2011
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Deal may let Virgin America, other airlines land at O’Hare Upstart carrier sees opening to challenge United, American The city of Chicago has struck a deal that could open O’Hare International Airport to Virgin America and other new entrants, providing fresh competition to United and American airlines. After lengthy negotiations, Delta Air Lines Inc. is poised to hand the city control of the L Concourse in O’Hare’s Terminal 3, including five gates that the city could rent to Virgin America, JetBlue Airways or even...

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Passenger Loses it, Punches Flight Attendant

January 22, 2011
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2 New Yorkers come to rescue when deranged man attacks flight attendant on JFK-bound plane Two New Yorkers came to the rescue of a beleaguered flight attendant after he was attacked by a deranged man on a JFK-bound plane, sources said Friday. One of them, 36-year-old Ramiro Silos, said the burly man was “screaming something about his sons.” “The guy was big and he was screaming, screaming, screaming,” Ramiro Silos told The Daily News. “I could not understand him. But...

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American Airlines Flight Attendant Shares the Good, Bad, and Ugly

December 11, 2010
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  American Airlines Kristen Heller shares her ‘work-life’ with us…………. Flight attendant’s job is hard, challenging, wonderful Gone are the jet set days where the job was its own passport to exotic shores – when flight attendants were the stars of air carrier advertising. Now most airline flight attendants, having given back money and benefits to help keep their carriers financially aloft last decade, work more hours to earn their old salaries and face new security-related duties and planes...

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Scary Flight for Passengers, Officials Look For Answers in Americans Hole

October 29, 2010
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Jet Suffered Two-Foot Hole, Decompression By ANDY PASZTOR, Wall Street Journal Boeing Co. and federal air-safety officials are stepping up scrutiny of certain Boeing 757 aircraft after a two-foot hole opened earlier this week in the fuselage of an American Airlines jet cruising at 31,000 feet, resulting in rapid cabin decompression. The emergency, which occurred on an AMR Corp. American Airlines jet en route from Miami to Boston on Tuesday, prompted the crew and 154 passengers to don oxygen masks about...

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Miami Flight Attendant, Still Smiling After 50 Years of Flying

October 10, 2010
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Barbara Beckett, an American Airlines flight attendant, has been working for American for 50 years and has no plans to retire.

Miami flight attendant marks 50 years in the skies Tampa Bay Online/Associated Press MIAMI – This year, Barbara Beckett marked her 50th anniversary as a flight attendant, a career that once would have been ended after a decade by mandatory retirement rules. The 70-year-old Boynton Beach resident has logged thousands of flights in her career with American Airlines, and has no firm plans to retire. She has worked through dramatic changes in the perception of flight attendants — from...

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American Airlines Adds a Fee for Sitting Closer to First Class

August 20, 2010
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New Express Seats on American Airlines. Pay a fee for the early ‘board’ special! American Airlines new ‘Express Seats’ are similar to United’s ‘Economy Plus’, only without the ‘plus’. But you still pay a fee. Yes, even without the plus. Like United, American’s special seats aren’t really special at all. On both carriers, they’re the same coach seats you’ll find in all of ‘economy’, even in United’s Economy ‘Less’ section. At American, you’re paying for location, location, location. What...

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‘Loaded’ Passenger Fires Up Napkins on American Airlines Flight

August 6, 2010
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Lit passenger lights up napkin on American Airlines flight An apparently drunk passenger Sunday pulled out his lighter and set a couple of drink napkins ablaze aboard an American Airlines flight headed from Honolulu to Chicago. A woman whose friend and friend’s one-year-old child were seated in the row behind the guy gave this second-hand description: “The lady sitting next to the passenger who lit the fire threw down her DVD player and alerted flight attendants who berated the passenger verbally and...

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Flight Attendant Faces Terror Charges Against American Airlines

July 22, 2010
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Air steward ‘terror’ rage By JANON FISHER, NY Post A flight attendant with a short fuse threatened to unleash jihad on American Airlines after it fired him for hurling a coffee pot at a stewardess, the feds charged yesterday. Rodney Lorenzo, 45, mailed letters to top airline executives with “Boom!!” written on the envelopes, a prosecutor said in Brooklyn federal court. They contained pages from an employee handbook showing how to access the cockpit. In the 2008 letters, Lorenzo...

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Updated 07/13/10: Tokyo Bound American Airlines 777 Lands in Remote Aleutians Air Force Base

July 12, 2010
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Sunday, July 11, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, emergency personnel investigate an American Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Eareckson Air Station on Shemya Island, Alaska. The plane made the landing on the remote island in Alaska's Aleutians after a fire warning light malfunctioned, the airline said Monday. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, James Castle)

Jet makes emergency landing in Aleutians ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An American Airlines jet made an emergency landing on a remote island in Alaska’s Aleutians after a fire warning light malfunctioned, the airline said Monday. Flight 175, traveling from Dallas-Fort Worth to Tokyo, landed safely at Eareckson Air Station on Shemya Island shortly before 4 p.m. Sunday, said Tim Smith, a spokesman for American. The island base has a 10,000-foot runway. It turned out there was no fire, despite...

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“I turned and I looked, there she blows! This baby was coming! It was like, whoa!”, says American Airlines flight attendant Patricia Sund

June 19, 2010
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You guessed it, American Airlines again. Seriously, between landing planes and birthing babies, AA stews really deserve a new contract, which expired more than two years ago (see latest update further down). Baby Born On Flight From Haiti To Florida Miami (CBS)- Patricia Sund had never seen anything like it. “Another crew member said, ‘This woman’s going to have a baby!’ I was like, ‘Get out,’” said Sund. But instead, Patricia Sund got ready. As an American Airlines flight attendant...

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American 777 Loses Door at DFW

June 17, 2010
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"Where's the door? It was here a second ago"

Well, they didn’t really “lose” the door. It’s still in the jetway. Deplaning didn’t go smoothly Tuesday morning for an American 777. Apparently, an American Airlines flight arriving at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport lost its door in a Terminal D jetbridge. The aircraft pulled up to the terminal around 6:20 a.m. and docked with the jetbridge. Flight attendants opened the door to start letting passengers off the plane. However, it appears that the brakes either failed or were not set and...

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Flight attendant: Co-piloting ‘more fun than serving meals’

June 16, 2010
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June 16, 2010 01:00am Patti DeLuna  hadn’t piloted a plane in about 20 years until this week. Back then, it was a small Cessna. On Monday, she quickly stepped up to a Boeing 767 airliner. DeLuna, 61, an American Airlines flight attendant, helped her captain land the jumbo jet at O’Hare International Airport after the flight’s first officer fell ill with stomach flu. “I was the best available (back-up pilot) they had on the plane,” DeLuna said Tuesday from her...

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American Airlines: Pay a fee to board early, stand by and pay lower change fees

June 15, 2010
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"There's a fee for what?"

From Los Angeles Times/Travel The airline industry’s relentless drive to monetize services, many of which used to be free of charge, opened another front Tuesday when American Airlines began offering an optional “Boarding and Flexibility Package” that charges $9 and up each way for earlier boarding, the right to stand by for an earlier flight and a discount on change fees. As a consumer reporter, I tremble when I read airline news releases that promise great things for consumers. Here’s...

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American Airlines, Flight Attendants Await Mediation Board’s Next Step

May 25, 2010
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Terry Maxon/Dallas Morning News With no agreement in the latest round of talks, American Airlines Inc. and its flight attendants are awaiting word from the National Mediation Board about what will come next. The latest round of mediated negotiations ended Friday night, and the board has not yet scheduled another session between the carrier and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. “The short answer is: We wait,” the Association of Professional Flight Attendants told its members in a special...

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American Airlines Now Charging Fees To Non-Passengers

April 12, 2010
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The Onion 12/01/08 (Yes, the date is correct. What’s old is new again) FORT WORTH, TX—Cash-strapped American Airlines announced a new series of fees this week that will apply to all customers not currently flying, scheduled to fly, or even thinking about flying aboard the commercial carrier. The fees, the latest introduced by American Airlines in a continuing effort to combat its financial woes, will take effect on Monday. According to company officials, these charges will include a $25...

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United Airlines Might Find Continental Would Make Better Spouse

April 9, 2010
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Chicago Business, Crain’s 04/09/10 (Bloomberg) — Continental Airlines Inc. would make the best merger partner for United Airlines, creating the world’s largest carrier, should the pair restart talks that fizzled in 2008, analysts said. Executives at Continental started a review of options two days ago after the disclosure of United’s talks with US Airways Group Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because details are confidential. Spokesmen for all three airlines declined...

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