Okay so what’s up?
American launched the next assertion:
At American, security is our primary precedence and is all the time on the forefront of all that we do.
American operates 304 Boeing 737-800 plane and we’ve recognized a difficulty with the standard of labor performed on overhead bins on two of those Boeing 737-800 plane. The interiors on these plane have been lately up to date by a long-time FAA-licensed vendor.
After additional inspection by American, the work that was performed on these two plane was less than our requirements. Out of an abundance of warning, we’ve proactively faraway from service the extra 12 plane that have been up to date by this vendor and have notified the FAA. We are going to carry out further inspection work on these 14 plane. Although the problem didn’t impression the security of flight of those plane, we’re working with our vendor and the FAA to instantly handle this concern.
We by no means need to disrupt our clients’ journey plans, and we’re sorry for the difficulty this has brought on. Our group has rebooked all clients that have been impacted by practically 40 flight cancellations so far and can proceed to work proactively to get our clients to their last vacation spot.
Okay so what does that really imply?
Principally American discovered some points with the work performed by an accredited (and FAA-licensed) third social gathering. Technically the issues have been solely discovered with 2 plane (which had been modified to the brand new Oasis configuration). There are 12 different plane on which the identical vendor labored, so American pulled these plane out of service as nicely.
All in all, this impacts (at time of publishing) solely 4.6% of American’s 737 fleet.
Are my flights affected?
Per the above, American mentioned there have been solely 40 flight cancellations to this point. American has loads of 737s, nevertheless, and this shouldn’t impression their general operation an excessive amount of. It’s all the time a good suggestion to “backyard” your reservations and test on them each couple of days or so anyway, so go forward and test your reservations, however odds are American would’ve already reached out to you when you have been affected.
Ought to issues escalate additional I’ll let you realize, simply wished to make clear!