{"id":4686,"date":"2019-05-20T16:27:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4686"},"modified":"2019-05-20T16:27:57","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T21:27:57","slug":"american-airlines-files-to-stop-alleged-maintenance-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=4686","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Files to Stop Alleged Maintenance Slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AA.jpg 800w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AA-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/AA-768x414.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption> FILE PHOTO: An American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER aircraft takes off  from Zurich Airport January 9, 2018. REUTERS\/Arnd Wiegmann\/File Photo <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CHICAGO (Reuters) &#8211; American Airlines Group Inc said on Monday it has filed a lawsuit against two unions representing its mechanics, accusing the workers of an illegal slowdown aimed at disrupting operations to improve their position in prolonged labor talks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, American said there had been 650 flight cancellations and more than 1,500 maintenance delays as a result of the alleged slowdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American has been in contract talks with the Transport Workers Union of America and the International Association of Machinists since 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The unions did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Reporting by Tracy Rucinski; Editing by Marguerita Choy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines Group Inc said on Monday it has filed a lawsuit against two unions representing its mechanics, accusing the workers of an illegal slowdown aimed at disrupting operations to improve their position in prolonged labor talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,89,2203,1397,868,1103],"tags":[118,4772,914,116,2345,160,82,2673,4770,4301,745,2725,199,2612,4769,4773,2510,3474,412,1557,4771,1288,2298,4249,2579,1691,2483,1921,2276,1549],"class_list":["post-4686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-news","category-aviation-news","category-finance-news","category-stock-news","category-transportation-news","category-travel-news","tag-airlines","tag-alleged","tag-america","tag-american","tag-association","tag-aviation","tag-chicago","tag-court","tag-disrupting","tag-file","tag-group","tag-illinois","tag-international","tag-labor","tag-lawsuit","tag-machinists","tag-maintenance","tag-mechanics","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-prolonged","tag-reuters","tag-slowdown","tag-stop","tag-talks","tag-transport","tag-two","tag-union","tag-unions","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4686\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}