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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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