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American Airlines Recalls Approximately 800 Furloughed Employees

545 Flight Attendants and 250 Pilots to Be Recalled for Active Duty













Press Release Source: American Airlines On Wednesday October 6, 2010, 8:15 am
FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines today announced that it is sending recall notices to 545 flight attendants and 250 pilots. Several factors contributed to the company's ability to recall, primarily its efforts to capitalize on new international flying and business opportunities with British Airways and Iberia, continuing to strengthen its cornerstone hubs, and preparing for it's pending alliance with Japan Airlines.
Following today's news conference in London announcing the official beginning of American's alliance with British Airways and Iberia, AMR Chairman and CEO Gerard Arpey said: "The company is pleased to be recalling approximately 800 total pilots and flight attendants to help capitalize on our business goals as well as to meet our staffing needs in the coming months. This is exactly the kind of growth we're hoping to achieve with our network strategy, and my hope is that trends like this will continue."
The first group of 25 pilots will be recalled in mid-November, and the company will continue to recall at a rate of approximately 30 per month. For flight attendants, recall notices will be sent in phases. The first notices will be issued to approximately 225 flight attendants this month; subsequent notifications will follow later in the year.
"I am very pleased to welcome our furloughed flight attendants back to service," said Denise Lynn, Vice President – Flight Service. "Each day, our flight attendants play an integral role in providing our customers with a welcoming and positive experience onboard all our flights."
Captain John Hale – Vice President Flight, added "we are happy to have these pilots back in our cockpits. My hope is that the enhancements we're making to our network will allow us to extend the same offer to more of our furloughees."
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bleedairpacks

Wonder how many phone calls they'll have to make to get 250 guys to come back to AA.

Sliceback

Nope. It goes to the top of the list, seniormost furloughed, furloughed stand-in-stead, etc. Flowthroughs can come over AFTER the junior most guy furloughed Feb28th is offered recall.

There's no guarantee the junior Feb 28th guy will be offered recall from the 250 recalled. If he isn't offered recall no AE pilots can transfer.

Sliceback

Recalled "for active duty".

Since when is it referred to as "active duty"???

bailee atr

you are correct that it is by seniority, that is why after the 80 from the Febuary furlough, the 214 AE flowthroughs are at the tops because they are more senior than the guys on the street. .

teedog

Congrats to the American Pilots this is great news I am happy for yall.

Godzilla

Most likely ever since they considered furloughed pilots "Employees" for scope arbitration.

mrmak2

How many FAs will that leave on furlough assuming all recalls return? After 5 yrs the recall rights are lost correct?

willflyforcash

And congrats to the AE Flowthru Pilots. You have all been unjustly held back at Eagle for far too long (3 years to be precise) and hopefully this recall round will include many of you that chose to go.

Whacker77

I guess this explains why Eagle plans to hire up to 300 pilots in 2011. Glad to hear the good news for AA employees.