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Drunk American Airlines Baggage Handler Fell Asleep in the Cargo Hold, Flew to Chicago

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Oct 31 2018

A drunk baggage handler fell asleep inside the cargo hold of an American Airlines Boeing 737 — and wound up flying on board American’s flight AA363, the 6 a.m. departure from Kansas City to Chicago O’Hare on Saturday.

He “wasn’t discovered until the plane landed at O’Hare International Airport and parked at the gate just before 7:30 a.m. local time.”

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American Airlines President Finally Acknowledges D0 is Failing Without the Right Resources

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Oct 29 2018

Perhaps the fact that all of the focus for years on D0 not actually generating strong on time performance has sunk in. Perhaps it’s the poor financial performance with premium customers not booking American.

Hopefully American will align the resources with the operation and put the customer at the center of their thinking in order to run an on-time operation that delivers value to passengers. If American Airlines President Robert Isom re-watches his answer to this question, it could actually happen.

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I Just Purchased American Airlines Tickets for Someone Else, and Two Things Struck Me

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Oct 29 2018

Here’s what it’s like not to have elite status on American Airlines. This is a two hour flight. In order to avoid paying extra for seats on top of their fare, and avoid a middle seat, these passengers are able to book something only in the last two rows of the aircraft.

It taught me something about basic economy — and why it is going to perform worse for American as they make the travel experience worse — and I noticed another big failure during the booking process as well.

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This Strange American Airlines Route is Just 69 Miles and Doesn’t Go Near a Hub

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Oct 28 2018

One American Airlines route stands out to be as an aberration: Meridian, Mississippi to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. That’s a flight of just 69 miles, and it’s operated once daily in both directions with a Bombardier CRJ-200 50 seat regional jet.

To get a quick understanding for why this route exists — and persists under current management — Glazer’s law helps do some of the lifting.

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