American Airlines Says Its Trounces The Competition At Recovering From Irregular Operations: Flight Attendants Tell A Very Different Story

American Airlines Says Its Trounces The Competition At Recovering From Irregular Operations: Flight Attendants Tell A Very Different Story

American Airlines often claims that it is far better at recovering from so-called ‘irregular operations’ than its rivals, but stories from frontline workers caught up in this month’s Winter Storm Fern tell a very different story. Any boy are they mad. American Airlines cancelled thousands of flights over the space of just a few days… The post American Airlines Says Its Trounces The Competition At Recovering From Irregular Operations: Flight Atte…

American Airlines Broke a Basic Rule — and Flight Attendants Are Furious

One of the most solid understandings between airlines and their crewmembers is that they’ll have hotel rooms when they’re away from their base.  When last week’s winter storm snarled airline traffic across the country, thousands of American Airlines flight attendants did not have hotel rooms, and the airline has begun the process of compensating those who found alternative accommodations on their own. The Association of Professional Flight Atten…