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$25,000 Retro Pay and 28% Raises: American Airlines Flight Attendants Score Big with New Contract

by Gary Leff

Jul 26 2024

American Airlines and its flight attendants have a tentative agreement on a new contract, four and a half years after the last one became amendable.

Details of the five year deal are now public. Between immediate pay rate changes and the addition of boarding pay, flight attendants will receive up to 28% raises immediately the month following contract ratification. And they’ll get full retro pay for the time spent without a new contract, which can be over $25,000 per crewmember.

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Peak Season Trouble: American Airlines Braces For Flying Losses, Earnings Call Shows No Plan For Success

by Gary Leff

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Jul 25 2024

American Airlines profit was down in the second quarter. They’re crowing about record revenue, a lot of that is inflation, and they’re clearly not doing well – profit forecasts were revised downward significantly, and they are now saying they won’t earn anything in the third quarter which is traditionally good. It isn’t winter!

In fact, American Airlines will make money on its co-brand credit cards during the third quarter. That means it will lose money flying airplanes over the summer months. That’s insane.

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Fire At American Airlines New York JFK Terminal 8 Sparks Mass Evacuation Amid Thick Smoke

by Gary Leff

Jul 24 2024

The American Airlines terminal 8 at New York JFK was evacuated around 7 a.m. this morning after an escalator caught fire in concourse C causing smoke to fill the terminal. Nearly 1,000 people were moved and departing flights were halted, though about 75 minutes later normal operations resumed. Four people were hospitalized out of nine with minor injuries, with none apparently life-threatening.

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American Airlines Reaches Contract Agreement With Flight Attendants

by Gary Leff

Jul 19 2024

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants has updated its members, sharing that they’ve reached a tentative agreement with American Airlines. Knowing that they were negotiating this week in Phoenix, not D.C. and without the involvement of federal mediators, it was clear that they were close to a deal and simply had to finish up details.

This allows American to trumpet putting labor unrest and substantial risk behind them heading into their second quarter earnings call on Thursday of next week.

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Police Called After American Airlines Passenger Claims U.S. Citizenship Lets Him Steal Man’s Bulkhead Seat

by Gary Leff

Jul 19 2024

An American Airlines passenger flying from Dallas Fort Worth to Los Angeles took another passenger’s bulkhead seat and refused to give it up. He argued that it was his by right as a result of his U.S. citizenship. Defying flight attendants requests to move, all passengers were eventually deplaned in order to get him off the aircraft peacefully.

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Major Overhaul Already: American Airlines Updates AAdvantage Business Program with New Perks

by Gary Leff

Jul 16 2024

American Airlines let go Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja, architect of their strategy of chasing award managed business travel. His thesis had been that they were going to fill their planes, and didn’t need to offer companies discounts. They’d make more money, and do so at a lower cost – without the sales teams and special customer service to service those accounts.

Now they’re backtracking on this strategy.

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