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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by admin
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Posted on February 27th, 2013 by admin
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Posted on February 21st, 2013 by admin
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Posted on February 18th, 2013 by admin
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Posted on February 10th, 2013 by admin
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US Airways president Scott Kirby has filed a disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission that he executed a buy and sale of US Airways stock on Tuesday that netted him $1,366,857.80. He acquired 114,862 shares for $3.10 a share, or $356,072.20, and then sold them for $15 a share, or $1,722,930, for a net […]

Posted on January 13th, 2013 by admin
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American Airlines has sent out a holiday message from chairman and CEO Tom Horton that says it’s been a tough year but things will be much better going forward. “While we’ve always valued your business, we are especially grateful this year. I hope you join us as we convintiue to evolve, and I’m excited about […]

Posted on December 15th, 2012 by admin
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I’ve been reading the series of filings that accompanied Friday’s AMR/American Airlines motion to do away for the lump-sum option in the defined-benefit A Plan, and finding interesting nuggets. Here’s one from the declaration of David Ebenstein, a senior vice president at McKinsey Recovery & Transformation Services U.S., LLC, who estimated the impact of keeping […]

Posted on November 27th, 2012 by admin
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American Airlines will modify 49 of its Boeing 767-300ER jets over the next nine days to make sure that the seats don’t come loose – as happened on some similar Boeing 757s. However, the Boeing 767 work will be done when those airplanes are undergoing overnight maintenance work and won’t require flight cancellations or aircraft […]

Posted on October 13th, 2012 by admin
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Posted on September 26th, 2012 by admin
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