American Airlines Puerto Rico Airport is targeted by the U.S. for drug smuggling.

AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, is in the middle of negotiations to establish a powerful alliance with Japan Airlines (JAL), company that is already associated with oneworld, along with British Airways and Iberia.

Yesterday American Airlines' CEO Gerard Arpey took the podium, and took control of a situation that the airline had failed to take control of since news of the airline's MD-80 groundings first hit the news wires on Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands of travelers in the United States are scrambling to reschedule flights after American Airlines canceled at least 570 more flights Friday to conduct safety inspections.

American Airlines has canceled more than 900 flights on Thursday as the airlines works to complete the inspections of its MD-80 fleet. The airline is also working to re-accommodate customers affected by this week’s activity.

American Airlines is canceling several hundred flights today to conduct additional inspections of its MD-80 fleet to ensure precise and complete compliance with the Federal Aviation Administration’s airworthiness directive related to the bundling of wires in the aircraft’s wheel wells. These inspections – based on FAA audits – are related to detailed, technical compliance issues and not safety-of-flight issues.

Credit Union to Roll Document Preparation Solution out to Branches across the Country.

American Airlines issued the following statement today (August 17):