American Airlines Resolves Problem That Could Have Canceled Thousands of Flights<br />“It presented the opportunity to drop trips that shouldn’t have been able to be dropped,” said Mr. Miller, the American Airlines spokesman, adding<br />that it was “an isolated incident and a processing error.”<br />A version of this article appears in print on December 2, 2017, on Page B3 of<br />the New York edition with the headline: Pilots Agree To Cover Holiday Gap.<br />But on Friday morning, the airline’s president, Robert Isom, met with Daniel F. Carey, the president of the Allied Pilots Association,<br />and they agreed on a plan, said Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union, which represents American Airlines pilots.<br />Faced with the prospect of sweeping flight cancellations during the busy holiday season, American Airlines said Friday<br />that it had resolved a scheduling problem that had left thousands of flights without assigned pilots.<br />“Customers can rest assured we will have the full schedule covered in December,” Matt Miller,<br />a spokesman for American Airlines, said in a phone interview on Friday evening.
