This weekend, we look at how iPad helped a Canadian cross the US border, US airlines passing new European environmental fees along to passengers and the shift in airline outsourcing to offshore maintenance facilities.
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With the Chapter 11 filing of American Airlines, the airline claims, for passengers, everything will be as it was, hunky-dory; not so for its workers. Now, the Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the government safety net for corporate pension programs, publicly states that AA should not look to the agency as a place to toss their commitments to their employees.
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In response to customer questions about the filing for bankruptcy protection by American Airlines, the airline has published this series of Frequent Asked Questions. Basically, from a customer’s point of view, nothing changes.
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American Airlines, the only major airline that did not submit to Chapter 11 bankruptcy over the past decade, seems to be on the bankruptcy ropes. Its stock plummeted 33 percent yesterday as rumors were flying across Wall Street. Will it go into Chapter 11 protection in order to bring its costs down like its competitors?
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True, the airline found her luggage and delivered it to her in less than two days, but it didn’t get there in time for the big event. There were expenses to allow her to function. AA promised to reimburse them. Will she see her money?
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Is American Airlines denying families early boarding so that they can squeeze an early boarding fee from them?
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American Airlines (AA), one of the most aggressive airlines in the recent spate of actions and lawsuits regarding airline ticket distribution, was just instructed by an appeals court to reinstate their ticketing options and full ticket inventory on Orbitz that AA pulled last December.
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Memphis open for business despite flooding, Peace in the BA sky between flight attendants and the airline? Qantas/AA joint venture requested from DOT
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While you have been the CEO, your company finished last among its peers. It was the only company of the group that managed to lose money ($471 million) while the rest of the industry made millions. Your airline has gone from the largest in the world to the third-largest. Your stock price dramatically underperformed the industry during the past year. Your labor relations are rocky. Why not give yourself a raise?
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We take a look at the news. In Washington, DC, an annual Easter tradition, the Peeps Diorama sponsored by the Washington Post comes up with a fascinating TSA scene. BA and its flight attendant union agree not to strike, for the time being. And AA claims noting was wrong that made passengers and crew members faint and sparked an emergency landing. It must have been aliens.
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