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[…] hitting record highs as airlines up the ante. Bag fees are lucrative revenue for airlines and a way to save on taxes, airline experts say. Last week, American Airlines said it was raising luggage fees by $5. American will charge $40 for customers who don’t first prepay online and $35 if they do. United, JetBlue […]

*(CNN) — An all-Black female crew operated an American Airlines flight from Dallas to Phoenix in honor of Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to earn a pilot’s license in 1921. The airline hosted the Bessie Coleman Aviation All-Stars tour this week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Coleman performing the first public flight by […]

San Antonio – NAACP, the nation’s foremost civil rights organization, today announced it has lifted its travel advisory against  American Airlines. The organization issued the advisory last fall. The NAACP and its partners have been monitoring the airline’s progress on a number of commitments agreed to last year, including a diversity and inclusion gap analysis, implicit bias training for the airline’s 130,000 team members, and the implementation of a new discrimination complaint resolution process for […]

[…] can be lost. Urano agrees that there are “multiple ways” to successfully convey the message to passengers, but the key is “not to make the video complicated.” American flight attendant Rich Henderson tells CNN Travel that, to “some degree,” he’s always “wished that these safety demonstrations were a little bit scarier than they are, […]

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker *The CEO American Airlines said Wednesday that he was “eager to meet” with the NAACP, a day after the civil rights group issued an advisory warning black travelers that flying with the airline could be “unsafe.” “We were disappointed to learn of a travel advisory issued by the NAACP regarding American […]

*In this era of COVID-19 that has drastically and negatively impacted the airline industry for the past six months, American Airlines (AA) is facing another problem.  The storied airlines carrier is drawing backlash for allowing its employees to wear pins supporting the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. “Clearly we live in a time where it […]

[…] now refuses to pass the money along. What gives? Q: I recently found out I needed surgery. I had a flight from Baltimore to Madrid scheduled on American Airlines, so I contacted my online travel agency, AirTkt, to ask for a refund.  I filled out the paperwork and sent AirTkt a letter from Johns Hopkins […]

[…] and other public transport methods, airlines are starting to act. Several US airlines announced Monday that masks are now optional on their aircraft — Delta Air Lines, American Airlines, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue. Delta Air Lines says it is making masks optional, and warned travelers they “may experience inconsistent enforcement during […]

Kyetra Bryant. (Photo: Facebook) *A Black woman’s claim of receiving an “African American, African service charge” on her bank statement following a flight on American Airlines, has prompted a response from the airline, as well as the credit cards involved in the transaction. Kyetra Bryant told Fox 46 that she and her boyfriend bought tickets at an […]

*A Charlotte woman has questions after noticing that her bank statement following a trip on American Airlines had a surcharge from the airline that, for some odd reason, mentioned her race. Kyetra Bryant told Fox46 that while traveling out of Charlotte Douglas Airport on Thanksgiving Day, she and her boyfriend paid for their tickets and […]

[…] 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Four passenger airliners operated by two major U.S. passenger air carriers (United Airlines and American Airlines)—all of which departed from airports in the northeastern United States bound for California—were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists. Two of the planes, American Airlines Flight 11 […]

American Airlines *American Airlines has tapped Walton Isaacson as its new multicultural agency to help the company “better connect with Black travelers.” As reported by Black Enterprise, Walton Isaacson, led by CEO Aaron Walton, is one of the nation’s largest advertising agencies, previously ranked No. 1 on the outlets 100s list for advertising agencies. […]

*A group of 18 African American pilots for United Airlines are holding a press conference with civil rights leaders to urge Congress and the U.S. Department of Justice to launch a federal investigation into the hiring, promoting, training, discipline, diversity and equal employment practices of United Airlines. According to the pilots, United Airlines has […]

[…] Rogers will perform at the event, which will be generously supported by Presenting Sponsor, Gilead Sciences, Inc. Additional sponsors for the event are Diamond Sponsor BVLGARI and American Airlines, ETAF’s official airline. Billy Porter is an Emmy®, Tony Award® and Grammy® Award-winning actor, singer, director, composer and playwright. His electric portrayal of ‘Pray Tell’ in […]

[…] Festival are: U.S. DRAMATIC COMPETITION Presenting the world premieres of 10 narrative feature films, the Dramatic Competition offers Festivalgoers a first look at groundbreaking new voices in American independent film. Films that have premiered in this category in recent years include Minari, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Farewell, Honey Boy, Clemency, Eighth Grade, and […]