American Airlines to resume Haiti flights Friday

American Airlines says it will resume regular flights to Haiti on Friday, the first commercial flights since the island nation was hit by an earthquake on Jan. 12. American said Tuesday that its first flight into Port-au-Prince will leave Friday morning from Miami International Airport. The airline will operate three daily nonstop flights from Florida [...]

American Airlines to charge $50 for coach standby

Next time you think about flying standby on American Airlines, be prepared to give the gate agent your name and $50. The days of hanging around the agent’s desk, hoping for a free switch to an earlier flight are over at American for many passengers. The nation’s second-largest airline said Wednesday that starting with tickets [...]

Dodging a storm: Airline fee waiver policies vary

A snowstorm is heading for Washington, D.C., and you’ve got a flight scheduled to see the monuments, do some shopping in trendy Georgetown and visit relatives in the suburbs. Your departing airline tells you it will waive its fee if you choose to proactively rebook a flight that has yet to be canceled. You’re all [...]

FAA eyes hefty fines for American Airlines

The Federal Aviation Administration is close to wrapping up a two-year investigation of safety violations at American Airlines that could result in one of the largest fines in the agency’s history, according to government and industry officials familiar with the investigation. Separately, the Transportation Department’s inspector general is due to release an audit in the [...]

American Airlines to charge $8 for blankets

If you want a pillow and blanket in coach on American Airlines, it’s going to cost you. The airline will charge $8 for a pillow and blanket in coach class for domestic trips and some international flights longer than two hours, beginning May 1. The international flights are to and from Canada, Mexico, Hawaii, the [...]

Some prices can be too good to be true

Royce Smith planned to visit Sydney, Australia during spring break to attend an arts festival and work on a book, when he found an unbelievably good fare on American Airlines’ Web site: A round-trip ticket from Wichita, Kansas, to Sydney for just $1,198. In first class. “I jumped on the deal,” said Smith, an assistant [...]

Airlines drop latest fare increase

Major U.S. airlines have dropped an effort to raise fares by up to $16 a roundtrip after some carriers resisted the increase. Fort Worth, Texas-based American Airlines confirmed on Monday that it had dropped a price hike from last week. American spokesman Tim Smith said Atlanta-based Delta had pulled the increase even before American did, [...]