Clik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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....
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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....
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View Article
![[imports/adg/photos/213899875_Police-Car-Lights-2.jpg]](http://wehco.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/imports/adg/photos/213899875_Police-Car-Lights-2_t600.jpg?4326734cdb8e39baa3579048ef63ad7b451e7676)
