Is somebody taking responsibility for all this headache? Yes, Chief Executive Gerard Arpey is stepping forward to take full responsibility for this mess. A costly one. "I take full personal responsibility for us being in this situation," said Chief Executive Gerard Arpey in press conference addressing the issue. He said costs to the airline will run into the "tens of millions of dollars."
American Airlines parent AMR Corp. expects to have all of its MD-80 jetliners, the cause of some 2,500 canceled flights over the last two days, back in service by Saturday night.
The company said 100 of its nearly 300 MD-80s are back in service after inspections and another 30 will be back in rotation by 4 p.m. this afternoon. Most of the planes that were inspected have had modifications made.
