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- <text id=91TT0074>
- <title>
- Jan. 14, 1991: Business Notes:Labor
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- LABOR
- Even Captains Get the Flu
- </hdr><body>
- <p> American Airlines is one of the strongest U.S. carriers, but
- lately it has been feeling under the weather. Last week the
- airline said it will have to cancel at least 230 flights, or
- 11% of its daily schedule, including all its Los Angeles--to--San Francisco flights. American attributed the reduction to
- a shortage of pilots, who the carrier says have been calling
- in sick at a high rate--more than 500 on some days, twice the
- normal number. The airline accuses the pilots of staging an
- illegal sick-out to put pressure on American in negotiations
- that have been going on since October 1989 over the pilots'
- next five-year contract. The pilots deny organizing any
- sick-out.
- </p>
- <p> In full-page newspaper ads, American embarrassed itself last
- week when it tried to apologize to passengers for the problems
- caused by the flight cancellations. The airline got the name
- of the pilots' union wrong, calling it the Airline Pilots
- Association instead of the Allied Pilots Association. The
- following day American ran a corrected ad, and tough-talking
- chairman Robert Crandall had to apologize all over again, this
- time in a letter to the union.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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