Tagged: Bankruptcy

American Airlines says it’s serious about taking pilots to court if, as the company claims, they continue to disrupt flights. And if that happens, the pilots union could be fined millions.

North Texas travelers now have fewer flights to choose from out of DFW. American Airlines has cut up to two percent of its flights following an increase in delays and cancellations.

Hundreds of uniformed American Airlines workers have marched to company headquarters to protest bankruptcy plans that could void their contracts.

Officials with American Airlines will try to convince a bankruptcy judge that labor agreements must be broken for the carrier to survive.

Leaders of the Fort Worth-based airline on Monday will be at a federal courthouse in New York to open what could be a two-month hearing.

Parent company AMR seeks to void its contracts with pilots, flight attendants and ground workers and impose its own terms.

The airline lost more than $10 billion in the decade leading up to its declaration of bankruptcy last November.