AA: FAA reneged on hand-shake
The mass cancellation of American Airlines flights last month would not have happened if the FAA stuck with an earlier agreement.
According to Reuters News Service
American Airlines is poised to say in a report to be delivered on Friday that it wouldn’t have had to cancel over 3,000 flights last month if a tentative agreement it had with local aviation officials hadn’t been overruled, according to a newspaper.
The Wall Street Journal report will say that the carrier thought it had a “hand-shake” pact with regional Federal Aviation Administration managers, through which it meant to repair wiring systems on its MD-80 planes on a schedule that would not have forced it to cancel flights, which left over 300,000 passengers stranded last month.
But FAA headquarters overruled those local officials and pressed forward with a tougher enforcement plan literally overnight, the report said, according to the Journal.
The report, to be delivered to the US Department of Transportation, is also expected to say that FAA officials did not check any of the affected planes or raise doubts about the initial wiring work until March 2008, the Journal reported.
The FAA and American Airlines were not immediately available for comment.
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