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  • AMR Wins Ruling in Fight With Agents Ahead of Union Election

    Updated 1 hour, 51 minutes ago

    AMR Corp.’s American Airlines, which wants to reduce labor costs while in bankruptcy, defeated an effort by some employees to block wage and benefit cuts as they consider joining a union.

  • Delta Reaches Contract Accord With Pilots Seven Months Early

    Delta Air Lines Inc. reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with its pilots union seven months before the existing accord comes up for amendment, in an industry where negotiations often drag on for years.

  • AMR Pilots Back US Airways Deal to Compete With Rivals

    American Airlines’ pilots support a merger with US Airways Group Inc. to compete better against larger rivals while forcing the pilots to give up $130 million less in annual concessions, a union negotiator testified.

  • American Airlines Pilots Oppose Company Request to Void Contract

    The union representing pilots of AMR Corp.’s American Airlines objected to the carrier’s request to throw out a collective bargaining agreement as part of its reorganization.

  • AMR Said Ready to Study Sale Among Options in Bankruptcy

    American Airlines parent AMR Corp. will explore strategic options that include a possible sale under an agreement with the unsecured creditors committee in its bankruptcy case, people familiar with the matter said.

  • American Airlines Considers Change in Oldest Jet Livery

    American Airlines is studying whether to adopt a new look for its jets, which sport the oldest livery among major U.S. carriers and an iconic polished-aluminum finish in use since the 1930s.

  • AMR Said Ready to Explore Sale

    American Airlines parent AMR Corp. will explore strategic options that include a possible sale under an agreement with the unsecured creditors committee in its bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter said. Mark Crumpton reports on Bloomberg Television's "Bottom Line." (Source: Bloomberg)

  • Midnight Was Movie Hour, Nap Time in New York Air Tower

    When midnight rolled around and flight traffic thinned out, air-traffic controllers guiding planes in the busiest U.S. corridor whipped out laptops to watch movies, play games or gamble online.

  • Lutnick Seizes Las Vegas With Cantor Fitzgerald’s Bet on Sports

    In his ground-level office on a back street of Las Vegas, Lee Amaitis is worlds away from the 15- story building in London where he served as the second in command at Cantor Fitzgerald LP until 2008. Rather than looking at the Tower of London on the River Thames from his office, he now has a view of men entering and leaving Sheri’s Cabaret, featuring “Hot Fully Nude Girls.’’

  • TSA Arrests Raise Questions of Who Screens the Screeners

    The arrests of U.S. Transportation Security Administration employees on charges of accepting bribes from drug-smugglers is escalating calls from Republicans to overhaul an agency under fire for patting down young children and senior citizens.

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