In case you’ve been blithely unaware of a weather phenomenon dubbed Hurricane Sandy, she’s moving in on the East Coast, and fast. As such, American, Delta, United and US Airways had already wiped a combined total of about 9,000 flights off the boards to prepare for the storm. That’s a lot of stranded people. [More]
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American Airlines To Hire 2,500 Pilots While Still Dealing With Contract Disputes
By 10.25.12 — Updated: 12.19.12
American Airlines has been struggling to get its act together for quite some time now, what with rows of airplane seats coming loose mid-flight, typhoid scares and continued contract disputes with its pilots. But even while the company accuses some of those pilots with staging sick-outs and hasn’t reached a deal with the pilots’ union yet, it announced this week that it’ll be adding 2,500 pilots to its payroll in the next five years. [More]
American Airlines Flight Grounded Because Typhoid Fever Apparently Still A Thing To Worry About
By 10.16.12
Add this odd incident to the litany of problems plaguing American Airlines lately: A plane coming in from Miami was held for two hours on the ground at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport last night after a passenger piped up to say she maybe kinda could be at risk for having typhoid fever. [More]
American Airlines Hopes Online Meal Reservations Will Make Travelers Forget All Those Other Problems
By 10.15.12
Loosey-goosey seats? Flight cancellations and labor contract disputes? Maybe customers will forget all those problems riddling American Airlines now that some first- and business-class passengers can make sure they reserve their desired in-flight meal in advance. At least, we’re guessing that’s what the airline is hoping as it struggles to reassure customers during its recent tribulations. [More]
American Airlines’ Woes Continue With Flight Cuts Extending Into November
By 10.12.12
Any day there’s news involving American Airlines, we’ve become used to it being mostly bad. But today there’s a bit of both, so, yay. The bad news: American Airlines is going to keep up with its 1% reduction in capacity into November, which means cutting about 35 flights per day. The good news: The airline says the cuts aren’t going to mess up holiday travel. [More]
American Airlines Employees Say All These Flight Delays Are Turning Passengers Violent
By 10.9.12
American Airlines has had better days. Delays and canceled flights have soared in recent months; the airline says it’s disgruntled pilots while the pilots says it’s crappy old jets that need constant repair. Regardless of who is to blame, the AA employees working at airport gates say that stranded passengers are channeling their anger into violence at the nearest person in an American uniform. [More]
It’s Partly Your Own Sloppy, Drink-Spilling Fault Those American Airlines Seats Came Loose
By 10.5.12
I know – we’ve all heard plenty about those American Airlines flights with unbolted seats (if you haven’t, we’ve written plenty about it). But now that American Airlines has finished its inspections of 48 planes to determine why there were rows of loosey-goosey seats on its Boeing 757s, it’s good to know that it’s partly our fault for being such sloppy, spill-prone passengers. Wait, what? [More]
American Airlines Says It’s Fixed All Those Pesky Loose Seats, Doesn’t Say How Many There Were
By 10.4.12
The good news: American Airlines says it’s all done inspecting its 48 planes and fixing whichever seats happened to be loose. The kind of “hmm…” news? It didn’t say exactly how many planes were in need of attention, just that all those that did are now back in service. [More]
Spirit Airlines Rubs Salt In American Airlines’ Loose Seat Wound With 7.57% Discount Promo
By 10.3.12
Not a company to let a juicy opportunity for mockery slip by, Spirit Airlines is poking fun at American Airlines’ loose-seat woes with a new 7.57% discount promo. It’s not even a tongue-in-cheek situation — the tongue is fully out of the mouth and wagging at American with: “WE LET LOW FARES LOOSE, NOT SEATS! 7.57% OFF.” Wait, I don’t get it. [More]
American Airlines Finds More Planes With Loose Seats, Blames Installation Problems
By 10.3.12
Because American Airlines doesn’t need any more 757 jetliners hitting the air with loosey-goosey seats slip-sliding around, the company has been busily conducting inspections of its fleet to get to the bottom of the problem. In just the last week, three American Airlines flights had to make emergency landings due to seats becoming unbolted in mid-air. [More]
American Airlines Can’t Catch A Break: London-Bound Flight Lands In Ireland After Smoky Odor Reported
By 10.2.12
We’re almost feeling sorry for American Airlines. If it’s not this, that and the other thing then it’s something else. In AA’s case, well-known humorists are railing against the airline; labor disputes have been causing cancellations and flight delays; three planes in a week have had to make emergency landings because of loose seats and now yet another flight had an unscheduled landing after a smoky odor was reported in the cabin. Tough couple of weeks, eh? [More]
Second American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing Due To Pesky Loose Seats
By 10.2.12
Just a few days after an American Airlines flight bound for Miami from Boston was forced to make an emergency landing due to a row of unbolted seats, another flight had to do the very same thing yesterday morning. The American Airlines flight from NYC’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was on its way to Miami as well, when it had to go back to the airport less than an hour later when three seats in row 14 went all loosey-goosey after takeoff. [More]
Masking Tape, Failing Altimeters & Vanishing Employees: One Man’s Tale Of Flying On American Airlines
By 10.1.12
Maybe we’re piling on poor, beleaguered American Airlines of late, but the carrier sure has been in the news a lot these days, and not for good things. Now a recent opinion piece in the New York Times only bolsters these stories of delayed and/or canceled flights, ticked-off pilots and battered and bruised jets. [More]
American Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing Because Seats Are Not Supposed To Come Unbolted Mid-Flight
By 10.1.12
One of the claims made by American Airlines pilots in their ongoing dispute with the carrier is that its fleet of planes are old and in need of constant maintenance. Case in point: A flight en route from Boston to Miami on Saturday had to make an emergency landing at JFK Airport in New York after a row of passenger seats became unbolted shortly after take-off. [More]
Leader Of Pilots Union Tells American Airlines Members To Stop Pulling Sick-Out Shenanigans
By 9.28.12
American Airlines has already clearly expressed its annoyance with any of its pilots who may be staging “sick-outs,” causing delayed or canceled flights in the midst of an ongoing dispute with the company, and now the acting president of the union that represents those same pilots is also telling them to simmer down now. [More]
American Airlines Employees Scoop Up My Wallet, Save The Day
By 9.26.12
Reader HogwartsProfessor has one of the rarest of all consumer stories to share: a positive story about an item left behind on a plane and airline employees. Yes, the problem was entirely her fault, but their staff on the ground were kind and helpful, creating a chain of kindness that reunited H.P. with her wallet and got her on the next plane with no extra fees. [More]
Jack The Cat Has Died
By 11.7.11 — Updated: 2.25.13
Jack, the cat lost at JFK and then found two months later, has died. [More]
Jack The Cat Found After Two Months In JFK Airport
By 10.26.11 — Updated: 2.25.13
Before the flight to his new home in California, Jack the cat escaped from his travel carrier and disappeared into John F. Kennedy Airport. The airline organized searches and put out food, and animal lovers all over the world helped in any way they could, from performing their own searches of the airport and nearby neighborhoods to getting word out to employees of nearby businesses and other airlines. We’re happy to report that Jack has been found. In two months, he apparently never left the airport. [More]
