American Airlines Resolves Problem That Could Have Canceled Thousands of Flights
“It presented the opportunity to drop trips that shouldn’t have been able to be dropped,” said Mr. Miller, the American Airlines spokesman, adding
that it was “an isolated incident and a processing error.”
A version of this article appears in print on December 2, 2017, on Page B3 of
the New York edition with the headline: Pilots Agree To Cover Holiday Gap.
But on Friday morning, the airline’s president, Robert Isom, met with Daniel F. Carey, the president of the Allied Pilots Association,
and they agreed on a plan, said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union, which represents American Airlines pilots.
Faced with the prospect of sweeping flight cancellations during the busy holiday season, American Airlines said Friday
that it had resolved a scheduling problem that had left thousands of flights without assigned pilots.
“Customers can rest assured we will have the full schedule covered in December,” Matt Miller,
a spokesman for American Airlines, said in a phone interview on Friday evening.
