American Airlines announced that passengers ticketed for travel between 11 September and 25 September may get their tickets reissued for the next available AA, American Eagle, or TWA flight. Change fees are being waived. Another option is to change reservations for future travel. Changes are allowed for new travel on or before 15 November 2001.
Passengers ticketed for travel between 11 September and 18 September may elect to receive a full refund to the original form of payment or in the form of a voucher for totally unused tickets, or a partial refund for partially unused tickets. Change fees will be waived.
As of information updated this morning, the airline announced plans to operate approximately one-third of its normal schedule today and its regional affiliate, American Eagle was said to operate approximately 50% of its normal schedule. TWA, an American Airlines company, will operate approximately 65% of its normal schedule.
The airline announced that 50 of American’s 147 flights that had departed on Tuesday and were later diverted to other airports before reaching their intended destination completed their trips yesterday. Another 12 diverted flights were later cancelled. American expects that most of the remaining diverted flights will ach their original destinations today.
According to the airline, there are plans to resume more flying gradually until reaching about 80% of the schedule flown prior to Tuesday’s hijacking tragedy. The airline explains that the Federal Aviation Agency’s new security measures, which all airlines are implementing, need a reduced schedule in order to minimize delays and customer inconvenience.
The airline announced it would start flights today from Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Airports today at noon ad would operate a limited number of transcontinental flights.
At Miami, the airline will operate approximately 50 percent of its normal schedule between 6:00 a.m. and midnight. In the Caribbean it would operate a limited schedule.
The airline recommends customers confirm flight status before proceeding to the airport and should arrive two hours prior to scheduled departure time for domestic flights and three hours for international flights.
For more information and schedules, see http://www.aa.com (14 September 2001)
