Here is American Airlines’ explanation of the pilots’ MOU
comments ()From Bruce Hicks, American Airlines spokesman: “The Memorandum of Understanding with the pilots’ unions and the companies is based on American’s new Collective Bargaining Agreement with the...
View ArticleUSAPA: Merger ‘quickest and surest path to a better lifestyle’ for US Airways...
comments ()The US Airline Pilots Association, which represents US Airways pilots, has sent out a letter to its membership to explain what the “memorandum of understanding” would mean if there’s a US...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines passenger service agents turn down union representation
comments ()We’ve learned that American Airlines passenger service agents voted against union representation. In a vote that ended Tuesday, 3,052 voted against union representation to 2,902 who voted in...
View ArticleFor those who seek such detail, here’s the full MOU with USAPA and APA
comments ()I’m not going to fill the page with the full MOU. But if you’re interested, click below to keep reading. … [visit site to read more]
View ArticleAMR results show big improvement after a full year in bankruptcy court
comments ()AMR Corp., parent of American Airlines Inc., said Wednesday it earned $262 million in the fourth quarter as results were boosted by bankruptcy-related items. Excluding those accounting...
View ArticleHorton hints at American Airlines rebranding ‘very soon’
comments ()AMR and American Airlines chairman and CEO Tom Horton sent a letter to employees Wednesday touting the progress that AA has made in the past year. In it, he dropped a hint that the company...
View ArticleHorton talks about rebranding and a possible merger
comments ()American Airlines chairman and CEO Tom Horton unveiled American’s new livery and logo Thursday as the whispers of merger with US Airways continue to grow louder. In fact, Horton obliquely...
View ArticleConsultant Mike Boyd thinks AA rebranding ‘completely...
comments ()An American Airlines employee asked aviation consultant Michael Boyd, head of the Boyd Group International, for Boyd’s opinion of the new American Airlines logo and livery. Boyd, who speaks...
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Boeing 737s surpass MD-80s in the American Airlines fleet
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View ArticleAmerican Airlines retirees must wait a little longer to learn fate of health...
comments ()American Airlines’ legal team squared off against the attorneys for the Official Committee of Retired Employees on Wednesday to debate whether the retirees’ health and welfare benefits are...
View ArticleUnion leader: We don’t like the Republic Airlines deal, but we expected it
comments ()Tony Gutierrez, who heads the Air Line Pilots Association unit at American Eagle, criticized American Airlines’ deal to send commuter-airline flying to Republic Airlines. But, the chairman...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines employees to get rebranded, too!
comments ()American Airlines said Friday that fashion designers Ken Kaufman and Isaac Franco will design “new, more modern uniforms” for many of American’s employees this year. We don’t know what the...
View ArticleAmerican Eagle union leader blasts American Airlines for sending flying to...
comments ()Robert Barrow, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA unit at American Eagle, blasted American Airlines and parent AMR for picking Republic Airlines to begin operating 76-seat...
View ArticleGarton: American Eagle will compete for flying of larger regional jets
comments ()Dan Garton, president and chief executive of AMR Eagle, told the troops Thursday that the carrier wasn’t able to bid for the flying that American Airlines is sending to Republic Airlines....
View ArticleTWU members at American Airlines to get 4.3 percent pay raise if there’s a...
comments ()The Transport Workers Union said Monday its members will get an immediate 4.3 percent raise if American Airlines and US Airways do merger. TWU leadership has signed a memorandum of...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal: American Airlines CEO Tom Horton in talks to become...
comments ()Tom Horton, chief executive of American Airlines and its parent AMR Corp., is in talks about becoming chairman if the carrier merges with US Airways Group Inc., The Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleSome photos of American Airlines 777-300ER
comments ()We’ve got some photos of the interior of the new Boeing 777-300ERs that American Airlines will put into commercial service beginning Thursday. UPDATE, CORRECTION: The new airplane was shown...
View ArticleJob totals at American Airlines shrink 7.4% after a year in bankruptcy
comments ()The number of full-time equivalent jobs at American Airlines Inc. shrank 7.4 percent, from 66,357 in November 2011 to 61,457 in November 2012, after the carrier’s first year in bankruptcy....
View ArticleLawsuit settlement, tax gain helps AMR to December net income of $773 million
comments ()It’s anticlimactic since AMR has already released fourth quarter and full year 2012 numbers. But AMR filed its December monthly operating report Thursday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines & Co. seek more time to file a plan of reorganization
comments ()While you’re filing your taxes at the last minute, American Airlines may be filing its plan of reorganization in its bankruptcy case. Shortly after 6 p.m. New York time Thursday, American,...
View ArticleTWU defends decision to give up profit sharing
comments ()Last week, the Transport Workers Union at American Airlines signed a “memorandum of understanding” that would give them a 4.3 percent pay raise if American and US Airways agree to merge. But...
View ArticleWhat is a non-executive chairman?
comments ()As we reported earlier, the rumor mill (and sources) has it that Tom Horton will assume the role of non-executive chairman of American Airlines after a merger with US Airways. Okay, the...
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American Airlines CEO Tom Horton and US Airways CEO Doug Parker talk to The...
American Airlines CEO Tom Horton (on left) and US Airways CEO Doug Parker during an interview with The News Thursday morning. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News)visit site to read more]
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US Airways and American Airlines CEOs see few job cuts
American CEO Tom Horton, seated on the right , and US Airways CEO Doug Parker answer questions during a press conference announcing the airlines merger. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer)visit site to...
View ArticleA follow-up: Our conversation with Tom Horton and Doug Parker about executive...
Oddly enough, neither Tom Horton nor Doug Parker brought up Horton’s severance package of nearly $20 million when we questioned them Thursday morning about what would be done for executives in the...
View ArticleThe APFA updates American Airlines flight attendants over the weekend
The union representing flight attendants at American Airlines issued an updated hotline message to its members over the weekend about documents it can review and retiree benefits. “Unlike the...
View ArticleAllied Pilots Association answers questions from American Airlines’ pilots on...
The pilots’ union at American Airlines Inc. over the weekend answered some questions that its members had regarding the American-US Airways merger, which was announced last week. The Allied Pilots...
View ArticleU.S. bankruptcy judge today considers approval of the proposed American-US...
Update: U.S. Bankruptcy judge questions American Airlines’ request for approval of $20 million in CEO compensation Original entry: U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane today is weighing approval of the...
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U.S. Bankruptcy judge questions American Airlines’ request for approval of...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane today questioned American Airlines’ request for approval of a $20 million severance package for its chief executive as part of its proposed merger with US Airways,...
View ArticleAMR Corp. and the UCC file additional responses to U.S. Trustee objections on...
American Airlines’ parent AMR Corp. and its Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors filed new court documents late last night — on the eve of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing regarding approval of...
View ArticleU.S. Bankruptcy judge approves American Airlines’ merger with US Airways
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane today approved American Airlines’ merger with US Airways, but he did not approve a $20 million severance package for American’s CEO. The U.S. Trustee in the case had...
View ArticleBankruptcy court approves antitrust settlements between American Airlines,...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane has approved two antitrust settlements between American Airlines Inc., Orbitz Worldwide Inc. and Travelport Ltd., ending a two-year legal battle. In April, American and...
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US Airways CEO Doug Parker assures N.C. senator of Charlotte hub status after...
U.S. Senator Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) said today that US Airways chief executive Doug Parker assured her in a letter that Charlotte Douglas International Airport would remain a hub after the airline’s...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines announces cash tender offer for $1.2 billion in outstanding...
American Airlines on Wednesday announced a cash tender offer for more than $1.2 billion in outstanding debt. The Fort Worth-based carrier said it plans to repay two separate pass through certificates...
View ArticleAmerican Airlines parent, AMR Corp., posts $65 million net profit in May
AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, posted a net profit in May and chief executive Tom Horton said he expects the carrier to post a profitable second quarter, which would be its first since...
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Justice Department taking depositions in American-US Airways merger (various...
A US Airways plane is parked between two American planes, one with the new logo (far left) and one with the existing logo (far right) at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (Tom Fox/Dallas...
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Justice official: An injunction, not remedies, is the best medicine for US...
Bill Baer Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer spoke to reporters Tuesday morning to outline the case against the merger of US Airways and American Airlines. The bottom line, he said, was that the...
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American’s Horton: Court battle ‘will likely take a few months’
American Airlines chairman and CEO Tom Horton said Tuesday that US Airways and American Airlines are going to fight the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit. He reiterated the airline’s view that the...
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US Airways’ Parker: We will fight them
Doug Parker US Airways chairman and CEO Doug Parker vowed Tuesday that his airline and American Airlines will fight the U.S. Department of Justice decision to sue the two airlines to block their...
View ArticleIndustry analysts: This isn’t good for the airline industry
The polls have not yet closed, but we’ve got some early returns from the analyst community. The opinion is that the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit is bad news for the industry. No surprise there,...
View ArticleAPA: American Airlines’ reorganization plan enters automatic 30-day stay
The Justice Department’s suit to block the American Airlines-US Airways merger has triggered an automatic 30-day stay of American’s bankruptcy reorganization plan, the pilots’ union at American told...
View ArticleAPFA: The DOJ suit will delay the American-US Airways merger
The union representing flight attendants at American Airlines called to Justice Department’s suit today to block the carrier’s merger with US Airways “somewhat surprising and certainly disappointing,”...
View ArticleTWU thinks the American-US Airways merger eventually will succeed
The Transport Workers Union of America at American Airlines issued a statement today saying it thinks the merger with US Airways “will ultimately be approved” despite the Justice Department’s suit to...
View ArticleBusiness Travel Coalition: DOJ action to block American-US Airways merger may...
Kevin Mitchell, chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, said today the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways “shines a spotlight on how...
View ArticleConsumer Travel Alliance lauds DOJ suit to block American Airlines-US Airways...
The Consumer Travel Alliance today lauded the U.S. Department of Justice’s suit aimed at blocking the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways. “The DOJ has shown that they are standing on...
View ArticleAirlineFinancials.com analyst criticizes the goverment charges against...
Independent airline analyst Bob Herbst of AirlineFinancials.com today lambasted the federal government’s attempt to block the American Airlines-US Airways merger. The government included “some of the...
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Dallas Regional Chamber’s Jim Oberwetter blogs his concerns about Texas AG...
Jim Oberwetter, president of the Dallas Regional Chamber, says he’s “hotter” than the Texas sun about the latest legal challenges to American Airlines-US Airways’ proposed merger. Today, he posted his...
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American Airlines and US Airways reportedly seek merger extension (Update at...
American Airlines and US Airways planes at parked at Washington's Reagan National Airport. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)visit site to read more]
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U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge confirms American’s reorganization plan (Updated...
American Airlines (in the foreront) unveiled a new look for its planes (in the back) in February. A US Airways jet is in the middle.visit site to read more]
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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge files his confirmation of American Airlines’...
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane (Courtesy of Judge Lane's office.)visit site to read more]
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