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American Airlines Pilots Union Warns of ‘Significant Spike’ in Safety, Maintenance Issues 

The Allied Pilots Association, the union for American Airlines pilots, issued a recent alert to its members warning that the group “has been tracking a significant spike in safety and maintenance-related problems in our operation.” Problematic trends include tools left in wheel wells, an increasing number of collisions between aircrafts being towed, improperly closed out maintenance actions with repeat writeups, pressure to return aircrafts to service to maintain on-time performance due to a lack of spares and increased intervals between routine aircraft inspections, according to the membership update posted on the union’s website on April 13. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The alert comes as airplane manufacturer Boeing and several U.S.

 

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