Airline workers conducted an informational picket Monday outside Fresno-Yosemite International Airport demanding fair wages and benefits from Piedmont Airlines, which flies in and out of Fresno. About eighty-five people work for Piedmont locally. The regional airline's parent company is American Airlines Group. Representatives of Communication Workers of America Local 9408...
American Invests in Firm Aiming to Supply Hydrogen to Planes
FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines said Monday that it invested in a company that hopes to deliver hydrogen for use in planes, one prong of the airline industry's approach to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. American did not say how much it invested or its ownership stake in Universal...
American Airlines Joins Alaska Air in Grounding Emotional-Support Animals
DALLAS — American Airlines is banning emotional-support animals in a move that will force most owners to pay extra if they want their pets to travel with them. The airline said Tuesday that it will allow animals in the cabin free of charge only if they are trained service dogs....
American Airlines May Cut Flights to 30 ‘Smaller Cities’
DALLAS — American Airlines is planning to drop flights to up to 30 smaller U.S. cities if a federal requirement to continue those flights expires at the end of next month, an airline executive familiar with the matter said Thursday. American agreed to keep serving those smaller cities as a...
Video of Packed Flight Leaving Fresno for Dallas Goes Viral
An American Airlines flight out of Fresno to Dallas on Sunday is attracting international attention because of a video made by a passenger. Posting on Twitter, Tammy Gonzalez said, "I've never felt so unsafe in my life" because of the number of filled seats and a disregard of social-distancing guidelines...