American Airlines Debacle To Last Thru Weekend; Is It Being “Punished” By U.S.?

Remember how American Airlines officials at first said that the mess with its canceled flights would be resolved by Thursday? Then Friday? Then Saturday? Now, they are saying they may need more time than that to get things back to normal at the nation’s largest airline.
For Friday, American says it will cancel some 570 flights [...]

American Airlines Strands Quarter Of A Million Passengers! 900 More Flights Canceled

In just the past few days, an estimated quarter of a million American Airlines passengers have been stranded after American cancelled all flights using MD-80 aircraft so that faulty wiring on the jets can be fixed to FAA standards—something the airline failed to do a few weeks back when the problem was first identified.
Today, American [...]

American Airlines Cancels More Than 1,000 Flights; 100 Thousand Stranded!

It may get worse before it gets better. That’s pretty much what American Airlines is saying as it has left more than 100,000 passengers trying to figure out how to get to where they are going  now that the airline has cancelled more than 1,000 of its flights using MD-80 jetliners.
A spokesman for the airline [...]

American Re-Inspects MD-80s;300 Flights Canceled;How Airlines Are Cutting Corners

Seems like there’s a rash of aircraft inspections of late and you may want to know why?  You may want to know why, but you will probably not like the answer.
First, some background.
The world’s largest airline–and in many ways most uncomfortable,too–had to cancel 300 flights today so that its fleet of MD-80 jets could have [...]

Southwest Airlines Not “As Safe As We Could Be,” CEO Says.

What a good idea for a catchy slogan for Southwest Airlines : “Southwest, We’re Not As Safe As We Could Be!”
I admit it is a daring concept: to tell your passengers that every time they board one of your jets, they are flying on a plane that is not “as safe as we could be.”
And, [...]

Obama’s Magical Money Machine; SouthWest Airlines: From Here To Eternity?

I’m sure Sen. Obama’s people think it is real cool that he raised a record $55 million in the month of February…but don’t they see how obscene it really is?
This is not Obama’s fault any more than it is Hillary Clinton’s fault that she needed and did raise $4 million over the Internet just [...]

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