American, regulators disagree over April groundings

Regulators added that the poor quality of the work on bundles of wires in the airline's 367 MD-80 jets "raised the specter of a cumulative safety risk." American Airlines , in its own assessment of the situation, said that "at no time was there a ...

American Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration, endeavoring to explain the biggest disruption to air travel in years, disagreed on the fundamental facts in reports each submitted to the federal transportation secretary. The reports, made ...

American Airlines grounded many of the jets in its fleet of McDonnell Douglas MD80s and canceled hundreds of flights earlier this year after federal regulators questioned its maintenance procedures...Federal regulators sent mixed messages to ...

Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters on Friday called on airlines and federal regulators to work more closely to avoid the massive wave of cancellations that American Airlines ordered last month...Peters’ recommendations, which didn’t blame ...