American Airlines in the news

LindsayW - 14/03/2008 04:26

American Airlines Inc. has a fleet of aging airplanes and a hard decision to make.

Every day it flies an aging McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is another day that it burns 20 percent to 30 percent more fuel than it would use with today's replacement airplane, the Boeing 737-800.

"There's no question, from a purely operational point of view, American should be replacing those airplanes – fuel emissions, noise, maintenance," said aviation consultant Scott Hamilton, who focuses on aircraft manufacturers Boeing Co. and Airbus.

Link: url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/030908dnbusaaplanes.38acd8.html

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LindsayW - 18/03/2008 01:08

A 21-year-old Texas woman is suing American Airlines for allegedly not protecting her from a man who masturbated near her on a recent flight. . . The woman's $200,000 lawsuit alleges that when she awoke on the flight to Los Angeles, she found the man masturbating and "a substantial amount of an extremely sticky substance in her hair."

Link: http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/03/15/woman_suing_airline_over_flight_incident/9262/

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