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Old Feb 25, 2006 | 11:51 am
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Originally Posted by AirDude
but I am wondering if AA will have chinese speakers to operate the flights since they have furloughed those chinese speakers
hired back in 2001 and AA is not allowed to hire new people due
to seniority issue with TWA?
AA can't hire because there are over 4,000 FURLOUGHED AA F/As. There is no issue with Seniority. Before AA can hire anyone, language or not, they must bring back the 4,000 furloughs first.

Yes, you are correct that many Chinese/Mandarin speakers were hired just before being furloughed....but I do know that 30 of them were brought back and are currently being used for the Delhi flights.

All they need are 2 speakers per flight.
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