Thousands of December AA flights scheduled without pilots?
Nov 29, 2017, 1:49 pm
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Nov 29, 2017, 1:50 pm
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Nov 29, 2017, 1:52 pm
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Nov 29, 2017, 1:57 pm
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"Flights that are scheduled without a captain, first officer or both originate from Dallas-Fort Worth International, American’s largest hub, and airports in Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a company memo to the union, which was seen by Bloomberg News."
Nov 29, 2017, 2:09 pm
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Also encouraging is that LAX wasn't on the list of cities affected, according to Bloomberg:
"Flights that are scheduled without a captain, first officer or both originate from Dallas-Fort Worth International, American’s largest hub, and airports in Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a company memo to the union, which was seen by Bloomberg News."
"Flights that are scheduled without a captain, first officer or both originate from Dallas-Fort Worth International, American’s largest hub, and airports in Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a company memo to the union, which was seen by Bloomberg News."
And if you are a pilot commuting to LAX or ORD, how are you going to get there?
Mr. Parker's cadre of great thinkers/corporate strategists answer will be to blow some award Pax/Low revenue Pax out of their seats. Lobo411 feel free to chime in.Channel 7 in Keokuk will have a field day with this on Christmas EVE.
Nov 29, 2017, 2:37 pm
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Also encouraging is that LAX wasn't on the list of cities affected, according to Bloomberg:
"Flights that are scheduled without a captain, first officer or both originate from Dallas-Fort Worth International, American’s largest hub, and airports in Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a company memo to the union, which was seen by Bloomberg News."
"Flights that are scheduled without a captain, first officer or both originate from Dallas-Fort Worth International, American’s largest hub, and airports in Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, North Carolina, according to a company memo to the union, which was seen by Bloomberg News."
Nov 29, 2017, 2:40 pm
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Nov 29, 2017, 2:49 pm
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9 months ago we booked SFO<>DUS AAward tickets on AirBerlin. In early November I was checking our flights and notice they hadn't updated their status in over a month. Upon trying to manually refresh them I found out the flights no longer existed, and a Google search revealed AB had basically declared bankruptcy and suspended all international flights after the end of October. Neither AB nor AA pro-actively informed us that AB was basically going out of business, or that our flights were canceled. I'm pretty sure if I hadn't pro-actively checked, we wouldn't have found out until we got to the airport.
By some amount of luck, I was able to get 2 award seats SFO<>DFW<>LHR<>DUS on the same dates on all AA metal (except the intra-EU leg, of course). The outbound flights are on Dec 17 (inbound luckily not until Jan 2), so now I get the feeling this is going to continue to be an interesting trip.
By some amount of luck, I was able to get 2 award seats SFO<>DFW<>LHR<>DUS on the same dates on all AA metal (except the intra-EU leg, of course). The outbound flights are on Dec 17 (inbound luckily not until Jan 2), so now I get the feeling this is going to continue to be an interesting trip.
Nov 29, 2017, 2:55 pm
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9 months ago we booked SFO<>DUS AAward tickets on AirBerlin. In early November I was checking our flights and notice they hadn't updated their status in over a month. Upon trying to manually refresh them I found out the flights no longer existed, and a Google search revealed AB had basically declared bankruptcy and suspended all international flights after the end of October. Neither AB nor AA pro-actively informed us that AB was basically going out of business, or that our flights were canceled. I'm pretty sure if I hadn't pro-actively checked, we wouldn't have found out until we got to the airport.
By some amount of luck, I was able to get 2 award seats SFO<>DFW<>LHR<>DUS on the same dates on all AA metal (except the intra-EU leg, of course). The outbound flights are on Dec 17 (inbound luckily not until Jan 2), so now I get the feeling this is going to continue to be an interesting trip.
By some amount of luck, I was able to get 2 award seats SFO<>DFW<>LHR<>DUS on the same dates on all AA metal (except the intra-EU leg, of course). The outbound flights are on Dec 17 (inbound luckily not until Jan 2), so now I get the feeling this is going to continue to be an interesting trip.
Cheers
Nov 29, 2017, 2:56 pm
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Nov 29, 2017, 2:57 pm
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More background on this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ameri...211413597.html
