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<text id=91TT0074>
<title>
Jan. 14, 1991: Business Notes:Labor
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Jan. 14, 1991 Breast Cancer
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 45
Business Notes
LABOR
Even Captains Get the Flu
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<p> American Airlines is one of the strongest U.S. carriers, but
lately it has been feeling under the weather. Last week the
airline said it will have to cancel at least 230 flights, or
11% of its daily schedule, including all its Los Angeles--to--San Francisco flights. American attributed the reduction to
a shortage of pilots, who the carrier says have been calling
in sick at a high rate--more than 500 on some days, twice the
normal number. The airline accuses the pilots of staging an
illegal sick-out to put pressure on American in negotiations
that have been going on since October 1989 over the pilots'
next five-year contract. The pilots deny organizing any
sick-out.
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<p> In full-page newspaper ads, American embarrassed itself last
week when it tried to apologize to passengers for the problems
caused by the flight cancellations. The airline got the name
of the pilots' union wrong, calling it the Airline Pilots
Association instead of the Allied Pilots Association. The
following day American ran a corrected ad, and tough-talking
chairman Robert Crandall had to apologize all over again, this
time in a letter to the union.
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