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American Airlines, US Airways Flight Attendants Reject Tentative Agreement
American’s new and old liveries American Airlines and US Airways flight attendants rejected the tentative agreement on a new joint collective bargaining agreement in a close vote. The Association of...
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American Airlines Upgrades First-Class Dining on Domestic Flights
American Airlines continues to fine-tune its first-class domestic service and announced enhancements as well as changes to meal windows to the current offerings on Friday for both American and US...
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American Airlines Mulls HQ Move
An American Airlines 777-300ER parked at DFW American Airlines, which moved its headquarters from New York to Fort Worth, Texas in 1979, may be on the move again. The company’s CEO, Doug Parker, told...
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American’s US Airways Unit to Launch Daytime London-Philly Route
American Airlines announced plans to operate a daytime flight linking Philadelphia and London next spring. The flight will be operated by its US Airway subsidiary. Flights will depart Philadelphia...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Travel History – December 2014
The Château Frontenac Hotel in Quebec City, Canada opened its doors on December 20, 1893. Named for the governor of the New France colony in America in the 17th century, the luxury, castle-like hotel...
View Article5 Stories to Read This Weekend: December 6, 2014
The first weekend in December is upon us, which means that it’s a great time to catch up on key Frequent Business Traveler news and features from this past week. Here are five stories that should be of...
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American Airlines to Unveil New Seats and Cabins, Add More International Wi-Fi
American Airlines jet at JFK American Airlines, which merged one year ago with US Airways to form the world’s largest airline, will announce a number of significant updates to its existing fleet and...
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American Airlines Marks One-Year Merger Anniversary with $2 Billion...
On the eve of the one-year anniversary of its merger with US Airways, American Airlines announced a $2 billion investment in aircraft cabins, Admirals Club lounges, and international in-flight...
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American, US Airways Flight Attendants Get New 5-Year Contract after...
[Editor’s note: new developments in this story may be found in this article: American Airlines Flight Attendants May Get the Pay Package They Voted Down] American Airlines and its flight attendant...
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American Airlines Announces Bonus Miles for First and Business Class Ticket...
A lie-flat bed in first on an A321T American Airlines announced a new bonus mile promotion for the coming year on Monday. The new promotion will reward passengers who are members of American’s...
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American Express to Offer Free Gogo Wi-Fi to Select Card Members
American Express announced plans to offer some of its card members free access to Gogo in-flight Internet starting next year. The Gogo Preferred Program, which will only be available from American...
View ArticleTake the 2014 Airline and Travel News Quiz
Say good-bye to 2014 by taking our 10-question Airline and Travel News Quiz. From a missing plane to new high-tech aircraft and hotel openings, challenge yourself and find out how much you really know...
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Great Moments in Travel History – January 2015
Christopher Columbus concluded one of the first transatlantic business trips on January 15, 1493, when he began his return trip to Spain, after crossing the Atlantic westward in 1492. On January 7,...
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American Airlines to Save $1.3 Billion in Fuel Costs Compared to Rivals
An American Airlines jet taking off A decision made back in 2008 is saving American Airlines Group a lot of money in purchasing fuel, it turns out, and its fuel costs will be significantly lower in...
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US Airways First Class Flight 749 New York-Charlotte – Review
On the Tuesday just before the Christmas holiday, with a severe winter storm forecast for the Northeastern United States, and the holiday travel season already in full swing, I ignored my best...
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Lobby Bar – January 30: Trans-Spatial Phone Calls, Talking with Strangers,...
Lobby Bar – An Endearingly Falsified Summary of FBT News and Views Calming cacophony. Jesse Sokolow spends some relaxing nights at the Whiteface Lodge in Lake Placid, New York. There’s nothing quite...
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Great Moments in Travel History – February 2015
On February 1, 1859, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, Texas opened its doors. By the 1870s, the property was one of the best-known hotels in the American Southwest, and has since hosted such notable...
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US Airways First Class Flight 863 Charlotte-Atlanta – Review
This is the story of a forgetful traveler, an awesome captain and first officer, and a one-hour delay, combined with a flight right before the Christmas holiday and impending major snowstorm. Whether I...
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American Airlines Jet Lands on Nose after Landing Gear Fails
American Airlines regional jets at LaGuardia A small passenger jet declared an emergency and made an emergency landing at a Houston airport late Monday after a problem with its landing gear. American...
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Lobby Bar – February 13: Editors in Underwear, Battery-Operated Wallets, and...
Lobby Bar – A You-Can’t-Handle-the-Truth Summary of FBT News and Views Digital presents. Jonathan Spira flies in US Airways’ First Class cabin on his way to Atlanta. After alighting, he realized that...
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American Airlines Pilots to Airline: New Uniforms Are ‘Unacceptable’
AA pilots in the airline’s current uniform American Airlines, which is in the midst of consolidating operations with US Airways following their 2013 merger, is currently testing new uniforms for...
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American Airlines Discontinues Duty-Free Sales on International Flights
Duty-free carts will no longer roll down these aisles American Airlines ended all in-flight sales of duty-free items on board its international flights late last week. The Fort Worth-based airline said...
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FAA: American Airlines to Obtain Single Operating Certificate on April 8
A US Airways jet landing at LaGuardia American Airlines, which merged with US Airways in February 2013, is continuing to make progress as it attempts to combine the two carriers into the world’s...
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Vote for Your Favorite Airlines, Hotels, and Airports in the 2015 Frequent...
Voting for the 2015 Frequent Business Traveler GlobeRunner Awards has begun, and with it, your opportunity to determine the winners. To cast your vote, click here to open the ballot. Last year, over...
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American Airlines to Merge AAdvantage, Dividend Miles Frequent Flyer Programs...
American Airlines will begin the process of moving millions of US Airways Dividend Miles members into its AAdvantage frequent flyer program on Saturday as it embarks upon the path to transition to a...
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American Airlines Obtains Single Operating Certificate
American Airlines announced that the FAA granted the airline a single operating certificate. The airline began flying under the single operating certificate and call sign “American” at 7:00 a.m. GMT...
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Photo Essay: A Tribute to US Airways
US Airways, which began life as All American Aviation in 1937, is one of the country’s remaining legacy carriers. It merged with American Airlines in 2013. Today, US Airways continues to operate as a...
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Lobby Bar – May 15: The Hundred-Mile Shot-put, Derriere Templates, and Bring...
Lobby Bar – An Every-Day-is-April-Fools Summary of FBT News and Views Human catapult. Don’t miss our guide on what’s doing in the city of New Orleans. It’s a common misconception that the city’s...
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American Airlines Sees Increase in June Traffic
American Airlines Group announced operational results for June 2015. Consolidated system traffic for the airline was 20.42 billion revenue passenger miles, or RPMs, up 2.8% from 19.88 billion in the...
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American Airlines Announces Date for Final US Airways Flight
American Airlines announced the timing of the last US Airways flight on Friday as well as the planned shutdown date of that airline’s reservations system. The airline’s swan song will be a red-eye:...
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Inside American Airlines’ Reservations System Merger
When American Airlines announced the date of the final US Airways flight last Friday, it represented the culmination of a long, hard-fought merger that beat the odds (and the anti-trust regulators at...
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Lobby Bar – July 17: The Transcontinental Aqueduct, Music to your Earplugs,...
Lobby Bar – An Off-the-Wall Summary of FBT News and Views Lime disease. Paul Riegler discusses the final stages on the American Airlines and US Airways merger. Despite the long-fought battle, when...
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Delta and LaGuardia Slowly Recovering from Power Failure
View from the air after taking off from LGA Workers at New York’s LaGuardia Airport accidentally cut an electrical cable, causing a power outage at the airport’s Terminal C early Friday morning. The...
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American Airlines Strategy for 2015 and Beyond: The World’s Biggest Airline...
American Airlines just completed a quarter in which it reported the “highest quarterly earnings that any commercial airline ever reported in a quarter.” The earnings, $1.9 billion, were the highest the...
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American Airlines to Celebrate Final US Airways Flight with Commemorative...
American Airlines provided further details about US Airways’ final flight on October 17, 2015. The final flight will operate as Flight 1939, a number selected to commemorate the airline’s founding in...
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American to End Service to Tel Aviv in 2016
American Airlines announced plans to discontinue its sole flight to Israel come next year. The flight, which links Philadelphia with Tel Aviv, has been in existence for six years and started as a US...
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Delta, Southwest, China Southern Top 3 Airlines in Traffic for 2014
Delta aircraft at LaGuardia Two U.S. airlines and one in Asia carried more passengers than any others last year, according to figures published by the International Air Transport Association on...
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Lobby Bar – October 16: Bare Travel Necessities, Edible Bedding, and the Long...
Lobby Bar – A Somewhat Sarcastic Summary of FBT News and Views Proper send off. With a series of his favorite pictures, Jonathan Spira mourns the scheduled death of US Airways, happening tomorrow. It...
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American Airlines Business Class Philadelphia-Munich Flight 716 – Review
American Airlines took the next big step in its merger two weeks ago, when it pulled the plug on merger partner US Airways’ reservations system and discontinued operating US Airways as a separate...
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US Airways Group Quietly Merged into American Airlines Group at Year-End
American Airlines Group announced that its US Airways Group unit had merged with the company, marking an official end to the US Airways brand. As a result, American took over all US Airways operations...
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TWA Flight Attendants Lose Seniority Case against American Airlines on Appeal
The long, strange saga of the former TWA flight attendants’ attempt to regain the seniority that was lost after American Airlines acquired TWA’s assets in April 2001 may be over. A federal appeals...
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American, US Airways Pilots Get Combined Seniority List
An arbitration panel resolved a major issue on Tuesday in the ongoing integration of American Airlines and US Airways when it handed down a ruling that would integrate pilots from both carriers. The...
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American Quietly and Successfully Integrates Pilot Operations
American Airlines continues to make significant progress on post-merger activities that will allow it to operate fully as a single airline. On October 1, the carrier moved to a single Flight Operating...
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American Completes US Airways Mainline Livery Makeover
American’s new (foreground) and old liveries American Airlines said it has completed repainting all 299 of the US Airways mainline aircraft in its current fleet with the new American livery that was...
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American Airlines Integrates Flight Attendant Operations, a Final Step in its...
American Airlines completed its merger on October 1 when it achieved operational integration of its 27,000 flight attendants. “It’s a huge milestone,” the company said in a memo to employees on Friday....
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‘Brace for Impact’ – 10-Year Anniversary of ‘Miracle on the Hudson’
Tuesday marked the tenth anniversary of what became known as the Miracle on the Hudson. US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 that, after takeoff from New York’s LaGuardia Airport on January 15,...
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American Airlines to Grow Los Angeles and Dallas Bases, Downsize Phoenix and...
American Airlines announced plans to increase the size of its flight attendant bases at Dallas/Fort Worth International and Los Angeles International airports while downsizing those in Phoenix and St....
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30 Airlines That No Longer Exist from Pan Am and TWA to Wow Air and Hooters
In the past year or so, several airlines have gone out of business although none of them was a major player on the world’s airline stage. Wow Air, which ceased operations two weeks ago, and Primera,...
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In Final Merger Milestone, American Moves Flight Attendants to Preferential...
All flight attendants at American Airlines will be using a new system to bid for trips for the month of May, as the airline completes one last step in its merger. The new program is called the...
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Great Moments in Travel History – December 2019
December is the 12th and final month of the year, and in the Northern Hemisphere is associated with winter, multiple holidays, and New Year’s Eve. It was the tenth month of the Roman calendar, and...
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