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Travel Hell: American Airlines Drama Continues

4/09/2008 at 11:18 AM
Tags: American Airlines, Airlines, MD-80, Travel Hell, Airline Hell (all tags)

So it's not just the brand new planes that are sitting on the tarmac. American Airlines continues to keep truckloads of its MD-80s grounded as it performs safety investigations on wheel well wiring. The carrier says the hundreds of cancellations are affecting "some" travel.

You can check on your flight by going to AA's status page. You can also set up mobile alerts there, which will ping your phone via SMS or email with any changes to your gate or departure time.

As for when the mess will be sorted out, it's anyone's guess. After nixing about 460 flights yesterday, American has canceled 850 today, though some freshly-inspected MD-80s are already back in service.

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