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This Airline Is Terminating Unvaccinated Employees

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Employees at American Airlines learned Friday they will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to keep their jobs because of President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors.

In a letter sent Friday, the company told employees that the vaccine mandate for federal contractors will apply to them because of agreements with the government and “all of American’s U.S.-based team members and certain international crew members [must] be vaccinated, without the provision of a regular testing alternative,” the Dallas News reports.

“While we are still working through the details of the federal requirements, it is clear that team members who choose to remain unvaccinated will not be able to work at American Airlines,” wrote American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and president Robert Isom.

The company was one of several airlines that participated in a call with the White House on Friday on COVID-19 vaccines. Reuters first reported that Biden’s COVID-19 team spoke with the chief executives of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Southwest Airlines on Thursday to convince them to coordinate a plan to enforce the vaccine mandate by Dec. 8 — the deadline by which federal contractors must mandate vaccination without an option for regular testing. (Read more from “This Airline Is Terminating Unvaccinated Employees” HERE)

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Watch: Mother and 2-Year-Old Son With Asthma Kicked From Plane After Crying Boy Struggled To Wear Mask

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A mother and her 2-year-old son were allegedly removed from an American Airlines flight after the boy was unable to keep his mask on. The video of the alleged incident shows the toddler, who is said to have asthma, crying while his mother attempts to keep his face mask on. The airline claims the child violated the federal mask mandate.

Amanda Pendarvis was flying on American Airlines Flight 1284 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Colorado on Sept. 13 with her son and her mother. Her 2-year-old son Waylon had a difficult time wearing a face mask, which was said to be the first time he wore a face covering. The toddler allegedly suffers from asthma. The mother claimed that she showed the flight crew a negative COVID-19 test for her son, but they said he still needed to wear a face covering.

Pendarvis posted an Instagram story on Monday detailing the incident, which she described as “the most humiliating/traumatizing experience.”

“He got on the intercom and to say to the entire plane, ‘I’m sorry for the delay but we are dealing with a non-compliant traveler,'” the mother said in the video, which shows the boy crying with a mask on his face.

“I was not refusing a mask. Nor did I even say I wouldn’t try to keep a mask on my son,” Pendarvis continued. “We were escorted off the plane as I was holding a mask over his little face. I genuinely don’t have words.”

(Read more from “Watch: Mother and 2-Year-Old Son With Asthma Kicked From Plane After Crying Boy Struggled To Wear Mask” HERE)

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WATCH: Airline Tapes Woman to Seat After Trying To Open Airplane Door

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An apparently unhinged woman was duct-taped to an airplane seat last week after she allegedly attacked the flight crew and tried to open the door of the aircraft in midflight.

Video posted on social media showed the gray-haired woman with silver duct tape over her mouth, and her arms and body seemingly taped to the seat. . .

The two-hour July 6 flight from Dallas-Fort Worth to Charlotte, NC, had been delayed for at least three hours before it finally departed at midnight, but about an hour into the trip, chaos broke out, @lol.ariee said in subsequent videos describing the hectic scene.

Flight attendants began turning on the lights at around 1:30 a.m., she said, “and we see all flight attendants running up and down the aisles, frantically kind of like whispering to each other.” . . .

Just as the plane was about to land, a flight attendant who sat near them explained a woman with an apparent mental issue, “had an outburst and like, had the urge to get off the plane. And she was saying, ‘I need to get off this plane,’ and she went up to the exits and started banging on the doors, saying, ‘You need to let me off this plane!’” (Read more from “WATCH: Airline Tapes Woman to Seat After Trying To Open Airplane Door” HERE)

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Texas Lt. Governor Blasts American Airlines For Opposing Election Integrity Bill

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) is “stunned” American Airlines issued a statement opposing an election integrity bill, Senate Bill 7, following passage early Thursday morning, as the CEO admittedly did not read the legislation.

“I am stunned that American Airlines would put out a statement saying ‘we are strongly opposed to this bill’ [Senate Bill 7],” the lieutenant governor said, “just minutes after their government relations representative called my office and admitted that neither he nor the American Airlines CEO had actually read the legislation.”

Patrick said he heard the same outcries from corporations in 2011 — claims that Texas passed a “voter suppression” bill when it passed a photo voter ID bill. He said the opposite of voter suppression occurred.

“Voter turnout in Texas soared from 7,993,851 in 2012 to 11,144,040 in 2020, a 39 percent increase. Gubernatorial election voter turnout has increased by 76 percent since photo voter ID was passed,” he said in his statement.

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WATCH: American Airlines Passengers Brawl Over Who Gets To Deplane First

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Two women got into a ferocious brawl aboard an American Airlines flight over the weekend about who would deplane first, wild video shows.

Passenger Annie Victoria Reso captured the fight, which broke out when Flight 2275 from Los Angeles landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, the Arizona Republic reported.

“Fight broke out as the plane was exiting. Didn’t make it off the plane until about 7:00pm because of the altercation,” she wrote on Instagram, where she posted footage of the combatants, adding that she caught her connecting flight at the last second.

Another passenger also shot footage of the fracas — as a flight attendant was heard yelling, “Call for law enforcement! Call for law enforcement!”

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American Airlines Pilot Reports Close Encounter With ‘Fast-Moving Cylindrical Object’

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The pilot of an American Airlines flight from Cincinnati to Phoenix reported a close encounter with a “long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile” at about 37,000 feet.

The incident involving Flight 2292 occurred Sunday when the Airbus A320 was flying at 406 mph above a remote expanse west of Des Moines, The Drive reported.

Steve Douglass, an experienced radio interceptor, told the outlet’s The War Zone that he heard the pilot’s bizarre transmission while recording from his multiple scanners. . .

“Do you have any targets up here? We just had something go right over the top of us,” he says.

“I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise missile type of thing — moving really fast right over the top of us,” he adds. (Read more from “American Airlines Pilot Reports Close Encounter With ‘Fast-Moving Cylindrical Object’” HERE)

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American Airlines Rolling Out Coronavirus Testing for Passengers

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American Airlines is the latest to announce plans to provide COVID-19 testing to passengers traveling to international destinations.

The airline on Tuesday said it will offer testing to passengers traveling internationally, starting with guests flying to Jamaica and the Bahamas. The carrier will expand the testing in more international markets in weeks to come.

In doing so, American Airlines joins carriers such as United, JetBlue Airways and Hawaiian Airlines, which already offers tests to some passengers pre-flight.

“Our plan for this initial phase of preflight testing reflects the ingenuity and care our team is putting into rebuilding confidence in air travel, and we view this as an important step in our work to accelerate an eventual recovery of demand,” Robert Isom, president of American Airlines, said in a statement Tuesday. (Read more from “American Airlines Rolling Out Coronavirus Testing for Passengers” HERE)

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American Airlines to Cut 19,000 Jobs When Federal Aid Expires

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American Airlines will cut 19,000 employees in October when federal aid that protected those jobs expires and as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate travel demand, the carrier said Tuesday.

The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline, which employed more than 140,000 people in March, is prohibited from laying off workers through Sept. 30 under the terms of a $25 billion federal aid package set aside for carriers to weather the worst of the crisis. But demand has only modestly recovered, presenting a dire scenario for airlines. American said its fourth-quarter capacity will be half of the year-ago level and that international long-haul flights will be just 25% of its 2019 schedule.

“We have come to you many times throughout the pandemic, often with sobering updates on a world none of us could have imagined,” wrote American Airlines CEO Doug Parker and its president, Robert Isom, in a staff note announcing the cuts. “Today is the hardest message we have had to share so far – the announcement of involuntary staffing reductions effective Oct. 1.”

American said it expects to have 40,000 fewer employees in October compared with when the pandemic began, the carrier said. The involuntary cuts include furloughs of 17,500 union workers, including flight attendants, pilots and mechanics, and 1,500 administration and management jobs. (Read more from “American Airlines to Cut 19,000 Jobs When Federal Aid Expires” HERE)

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American Airlines, Hyatt to Give Free Vacations to Thousands of Health Care Workers

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American Airlines and Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced in a joint statement Friday that they would be giving thousands of free vacations to New York City health care workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic.

The companies said in the statement that more than 4,000 workers employed at the NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst medical center would be treated to roundtrip vacations to destinations throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean once they can “take time for themselves.”

Hyatt Hotels plans to provide accommodations once they arrive at no cost.

The companies said doctors, nurses, physician assistants, facility workers, and food service teams would be among those who qualify for the trips. (Read more from “American Airlines, Hyatt to Give Free Vacations to Thousands of Health Care Workers” HERE)

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Airline Sued Over Creepy Texts Sent to Female Passenger by Employee During Her Flight (VIDEO)

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A woman says that she was stalked by an American Airlines employee during her flight and she’s suing the company for not taking her complaint seriously.

Ashley Barno said she received mysterious texts as she boarded a flight at San Diego International Airport in April. . .

That’s when he told her that his name was “Ahmed” and that he worked for the airlines. She believes he obtained her phone number from the luggage tag on her carry-on bag.

“I am on board now. Are you going to Chicago too??” he texted after they boarded. . .

“Just knowing that he knew what I looked like, and that we were in an enclosed flight, on an enclosed plane, and there’s no way out, like, really really scared me,” she told NBC-7 in New York.

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