American Airlines Pilots Protest for Better Schedules     By IAN MARGOL and ALEX CICCARONE/WPLG-TV MIAMI – With summer around the corner, airlines have struggled to keep up with the demand and now American Airlines pilots are saying it’s time to fix the problem. Hund...

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Vaccine Mandate Update As most of you are aware, today, Jan. 4, is the deadline imposed by the Company for employees to submit proof of vaccination for COVID-19 or apply for an exemption from the vaccine requirement. It is our understanding that a substantial portion of the pilot group has already ...

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Managing Unrelenting Change – APA is On It The past several days have provided ample evidence to reinforce the old adage that the only constant in life is change. As I emphasized in our press release regarding Doug Parker stepping down as American Airlines CEO and Robert Isom taking his pl...

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New American Airlines CEO Robert Isom Can Run Operations. Can He Lead An Airline?   Robert Isom discusses the American-Alaska partnership in February 2020. (ELAINE THOMPSON/The Associated Press)   By TED REED/Forbes Five years after he was designated American Airlines’ CEO-i...

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Vaccine Mandate Update APA continues to monitor the various lawsuits challenging the Executive Order requiring federal contractors to mandate COVID-19 vaccines. As a result of a decision by a federal district court in Georgia this week in a case brought on behalf of a number of states, state agenc...

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Management Again Trying to Fix Its Failures on Our Pilots’ Backs Poor planning on management's part does not constitute an emergency on our pilots’ part. Enhancements to American Airlines' network must be planned and executed with competence. Unfortunately, the latest new service to De...

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Holiday Flying: APA is Here For You As professional pilots, we know how challenging the year-end holiday season can be, with full airplanes and the ever-present possibility of inclement weather the norm. These usual challenges will be magnified in the coming weeks by staffing shortages throughout t...

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APA Board of Directors Rejects LOA 21-006 Earlier today, the APA Board of Directors unanimously rejected proposed Letter of Agreement 21-006, which management offered for incentive pay for 19 peak-period days around the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s holidays. The proposal offered 50...

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Natural Immunity, Vaccine Effectiveness, Vaccine Side Effects: New “Five By Five” The latest edition of “Five By Five” features New England Journal of Medicine Editor-in-Chief Dr. Eric Rubin and consulting epidemiologist Dr. Richard Roth discussing a range of issues associ...

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Get Informed About Vaccine Mandate Fellow pilots, Your union leadership has received numerous emails, phone calls, SoundOffs, and text messages imploring APA to take action regarding the vaccine mandate and asking why it hasn’t done so already. The great majority of these messages indicate t...

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