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In an effort to keep readers abreast of the latest news related to American Airlines and the airline industry as a whole, the following links will help provide a look at industry and labor news, trends, and happenings.

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  • American Airlines To Outline Cuts To Unions

    American Airlines' parent is meeting with its unions this week to lay out cost cuts it wants to implement as part of its bankruptcy reorganization, moves that could cost many of the company's 81,000 workers their jobs

    - CNNMoney

Past News

JAN
30
  • US Airways Reaches Deal With Flight Attendants

    US Airways Group Inc. has reached a tentative contract agreement with its 6,700 flight attendants, removing one hurdle in a potential merger with bankrupt American Airlines

    - The Philadelphia Inquirer
JAN
27
  • AMR Workers To Hear Of Cost Cuts

    Union employees at AMR Corp.'s American Airlines and American Eagle may get their first taste of what is in store for their pay, benefits, pensions and job security on Wednesday when AMR lays out its cost-cutting plans

    - The Wall Street Journal
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  • PSA Flight Attendants Say Talks At Impasse

    Flight attendants at a US Airways subsidiary have asked federal labor mediators to declare negotiations at an impasse, edging a step closer to a strike

    - The Charlotte Observer
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  • American's Leaders Can't Afford To Be Timid

    As painful as cuts may be, a merger could be worse for American employees. They could lose seniority, depending on how work groups are integrated. And most of Delta's workforce is not unionized

    - Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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  • Sizing-Up AMR's Rumored Suitors

    The airline industry has been awash in rumors this week of at least three potential suitors for American: Delta, US Airways and private equity firm TPG Capital

    - InvestorPlace.com
JAN
16
  • Hypothetical Delta-AA Tie-Up Anything But Routine

    If American Airlines is acquired by Delta or another company in tandem with its bankruptcy filing it could end a big consolidation wave that already has pruned the industry to a few massive carriers

    - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
JAN
13
  • Potential Suitors Circle AMR

    US Airways Group, Delta Airlines and private equity firm TPG Capital are among several parties interested in potential bids for AMR Corp the bankrupt parent of American Airlines, people familiar with the matter told Reuters

    - Reuters
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  • United Reaches Tentative Deal With Flight Attendants

    The union representing United Airlines flight attendants has tentatively agreed to a new labor contract, bringing the merged United and Continental Airlines closer to full integration

    - The Wall Street Journal
JAN
6
  • Iberia Pilots To Strike Again

    Iberia pilots will hold two more days of strikes on January 9 and 11, cancelling an additional 266 flights

    - The Olive Press
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  • 2012 Marks Beginning Of New Chapter For U.S. Aviation Industry

    2012 will also likely be the year we find out how labour rates will begin settling out. American's bankruptcy sent a chilling signal to labour which has mostly ignored all the other signals that the new normal in the industry means lowered expectations

    - Centre For Aviation
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  • "High Probability" Of Pinnacle Bankruptcy

    Pinnacle Airlines Corp., the regional carrier that flies for Delta Air Lines Inc. and others, has a "high probability" of filing for bankruptcy, according to a Maxim Group LLC analyst

    - Bloomberg News
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