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Flight attendants at American Airlines on Sunday accepted the company's last and final contract offer, a decision that will help the bankrupt carrier in its bid to cut labor costs.

The total fees billed by lawyers, consultants, investment advisers and the like working on American Airlines Inc.’s bankruptcy case have topped $100 million — and are sure to go much higher. With most professionals having now submitted their monthly bills through May, the fees have reached nearly $104 million, with $5.5 million more requested for reimbursement of expenses, according to a Dallas Morning News tabulation from court filings.

...The LA Times story focuses on a few very frequent flyers, including Dallas marketing mogul Jacques Vroom, who paid more than $350,000 for an unlimited AAirpasses, then proceeded to use it, and use it, and use it…

American Airlines says it needs labor cuts to survive; unions disagree.

US Airways Group said it has made deals with three unions at American Airlines, contingent on a possible merger of the two airlines.

As an American Airlines plane taxied for takeoff at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on Friday morning, a flight attendant ranted on the plane's intercom, repeatedly telling passengers that she was not responsible for the safety of the plane and wrestling with another flight attendant for control of the plane's public address system, according to a passenger on the flight.

On Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration said that pilots on American Airlines flights will be officially allowed to use iPads instead of paper flight manuals in the cockpit, just a few feet from the most critical avionics on a plane, even during takeoff and landing.

Alec Baldwin's addiction to the cell phone game "Words with Friends" got him booted from an American Airlines plane parked at a Los Angeles International Airport gate Tuesday afternoon, the actor's spokesman said.

American Airlines' parent company is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to unload massive debt built up by years of accelerating jet fuel prices and labor struggles.