Passengers who are booked on American Airlines flights should contact the carrier directly for flight status information. The airline is booking displaced passengers on other airlines.
As of 4-10-2008, AA is canceling hundreds more flights today as the scrambling carrier continues with FAA-mandated safety inspections of its planes.
Today, 900 flights were canceled in order to fix faulty wiring in hundreds of jets, marking the third straight day of mass groundings as company executives offered lots of apologies and travel vouchers to calm angry customers. At San Jose Airport, passengers got very frustrated and angry.
American Airlines was not the only airline to cancel flights to fix or inspect its nine MD-80 jets. Alaska Airlines canceled 11 more flights. Midwest Airlines canceled at least 10 flights after it grounded all of its MD-80 airplanes to fix faulty issues. Operating more than 117 MD-80 series planes, Delta Airlines did not expect to have just a few cancellations.
