American Airlines News

The new rules don't simply cut costs. The retirement betrayals, slashes to health care, and layoffs give employees a reason to actively hate their employer and passengers an excellent reason to avoid the troubled airline.

The lack of a nonstop service between the Big Island and Japan since 2010 represents a major gap in the travel market for the two countries and forms a strong argument for why Hawaiian should be awarded flight rights.

American wasted no time in initiating sweeping cost-cutting changes including increased hours and frozen pensions for pilots and relaxed code-sharing restrictions to outsource flights.

American Airlines is taking a very flexible and sensible approach to Apple's Passbook feature in iOS 6. If it takes off, then American may use the feature to push marketing and service messages to passengers.

Emirates would like to have American on its side to help feed fliers to its Dubai-feeder airports in the U.S., and a Oneworld partner like American would ease the process.

The contracts have been rewritten and negotiated for over four months, so this final court approval marks the next stage for American as it begins to implement the new contract terms.

AMR is flexing its muscles here as this action follows American's victory over its pilots union in U.S. federal court last week.

American should give United a call to see if they've got any tips on how to fix things fast.

The cost-cutting measure is just one part of American's penny pinching and include plans to eliminate nearly one thousand more jobs at other maintenance locations.

With contract negotiations finally behind them, over 900 flight attendants are leaving American's merger drama behind and walking away without having to be laid off.