Hope you don't have a trip planned around American Airline

Submitted by bizgrrl on Wed, 2008/04/09 - 4:22pm.

Passengers on American Airlines found themselves facing confusion and long delays on Wednesday after the carrier canceled more than 1,000 flights, as its efforts to inspect and in some cases reattach wiring bundles in the wheel wells of its 300-plane fleet of MD-80s dragged on.

More cancellations are expected Thursday.

Oh, my... I do believe attached wiring bundles might be important, but what do I know. Glad I don't have a trip planned that requires a flight.

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To paraphrase Jon Stewart: A

To paraphrase Jon Stewart: A plane crashed deliberately into the World Trade Center, that's the opening shot in the War on Terror, but your plane, owned by a loosely regulated corporation, depressurizing and crashing after take-off, that's the free market.

I haven't flown AA in years. Their equipment was always so dingy.

True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite. -- Ivor Cutler

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