A Leader Running Out of Road There is something almost theatrical about watching the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) President Sara Nelson lecture airline CEOs about how labor deals should be done given that United flight attendants have been working without a new contract since August 2021. Under her leadership, they have endured four years of stalled negotiations, stagnant wages, and false promises. The only output from AFA-CWA to date has been a tentative agreem

The CEO that 28,000 flight attendants want fired just got a public endorsement from the most powerful flight attendant in the world. Here's what's really going on. Less than two weeks after American Airlines' mainline flight attendant union issued the first vote of no confidence against a CEO in its nearly 50-year history, something remarkable happened: Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) and widely regarded as the most influential labor l

American Airlines announced Thursday it has chosen CFM International to supply engines for its upcoming Airbus A321neo aircraft deliveries. The decision continues the airline's existing partnership with CFM for its current A321neo fleet, helping streamline operations and reduce costs. American Airlines announced Thursday that it has chosen CFM International to supply engines for its future fleet of Airbus A321neo aircraft. The major U.S. airline had ordered 260 new planes in

In an extremely competitive world of US commercial aviation, where mergers, bankruptcies, and rebrands have wiped out once solid brand names like Pan Am , Eastern, and TWA, a handful of carriers have quietly stood the test of time. These airlines began flying in aviation’s earliest commercial era and, remarkably, continue to operate today under recognizable original identities. Their centennial and near-centennial stories are about constant reinvention. They embody the turbul

American, Delta and United collectively generated over $170 billion in revenue in 2025. Yet for every dollar that comes in, airlines keep just four cents in profit. Understanding how the other 96 cents gets consumed explains why the airline business remains, as Warren Buffett put it, "the worst sort of business … one that grows rapidly, requires significant capital to engender the growth, and then earns little or no money." Here is how a single dollar of airline revenue gets

Flight attendants at American Airlines were forced to sleep on the floor in airport concourses or on broken furniture in dilapidated crew...

American Airlines argued the injury stemmed solely from the unruly passenger’s actions, seeking dismissal via summary judgment. American...

Passengers on an American Airlines flight were evacuated on to the tarmac of an airport in Colorado as a fire broke out on the plane,...

Crew members on board the passenger jet that collided with a Black Hawk helicopter and crashed two weeks ago near Washington, D.C., have...

Formal charges have been filed against the Vice President of the American Airlines flight attendants union by one of its base presidents....

American Airlines’ flight attendants have ratified their union’s tentative contract, ending negotiations that have lasted nearly five...

American Airlines flight attendants resoundingly approved their new contract on the first vote, a one-off that came during a summer when...

On Wednesday August 14, Alaska Airlines’ flight attendants rejected the tentative agreement (TA) with the airline, forcing their union...

American Airlines flight attendants will finally be able to vote on a new “tentative agreement” (TA), following five years of labor...

American Airlines flight attendants won an additional $4.2 billion in pay and benefits, according to a tentative deal released Friday by...

American Airlines Group In c. and the union for its flight attendants agreed on a tentative contract after US labor mediators pressed...

A wave of IT outages swept across the globe Friday morning, causing over 1,000 flight cancelations and stalling internal and external...

After five years of labor disputations, American Airlines flight attendants are inching closing to an agreement with the airline...

Several American Airlines employees have been put on leave for their involvement in an incident in which black passengers were removed...

American Airlines has taken action after three Black passengers alleged racial discrimination during a flight, CEO Robert Isom wrote in a...