American Airlines cancels over 900 flights

[petep9000]

Originally Posted by JWS

The grave yard is NOT open to the public.

Ow! Big capital letters hurt my ears. Italics are so much kinder (see?), and send the message just as clear.

[bucklind17]

I just flew American to LA and back to NYC this week with zero problems. It seems the majority of flights cancelled out of NYC early this week were to Chicago and Dallas, as mentioned in the article, and I didn't notice any cancelled AA flights out of LA today. It may have something to do with the size of aircraft they fly to specific cities, but it didn't seem like there was too much overflow drama at least at JFK or LAX in the American terminals.

[Villavic]

CNN:
Gerard Arpey, chairman and chief executive of American parent AMR Corp., said the costs of the cancellations to American will run into the tens of millions of dollars -- including vouchers to reimburse stranded customers, overtime for maintenance crews and lost revenue. An analyst with Standard & Poor's estimated that it could easily top $30 million.

Arpey said that neither American's mechanics nor the FAA were to blame for the groundings, and he said he took responsibility for the cancellations. He said the company would hire a consultant to help it comply with FAA safety rules in the future.