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July 29, 2021 Share
Passengers on American Airlines has been dogged by flight delays this summer, and now flight attendants and pilots say the airline is failing to secure hotel rooms, sometimes forcing employees to sleep in airports.
Unions for flight attendants and pilots filed grievances this week with American, charging that the company is violating its contracts and putting employees in danger.
“We have flight attendants sleeping in airports and outside of baggage claim due to the company not providing hotel accommodations in a timely manner,” Julie Hedrick, the president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, said in a note to members.
American Airlines crews say lodging is lacking on the road July 28, 2021 at 1:46 pm FILE - In this July 27, 2020, file photo, an American Airlines Boeing 737-823 lands at Miami International Airport in Miami. Flight attendants at American Airlines say they are sometimes forced to sleep in airports because the airline fails to book hotel rooms for employees on the road. Unions for flight attendants and pilots filed grievances against American this week, charging the airline with violating their contracts and putting employees in danger. The president of the flight attendants union says some of her members have slept outside baggage claim because they didn t have a hotel room. Leaders of the pilots union say pilots have been put in unsafe hotels or told to walk to the hotel in the middle of the night when flights arrive late. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
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Post-pandemic travel trends have led to airline pilots sleeping in airports and even on the floor of their empty aircraft. Travel-starved Americans are flocking to wilderness destinations in the absence of international options and airlines have increased service to the secondary airports that serve those areas. Because of the limited services, both aeronautical and accommodation, at the small resort cities, when things go wrong the result can be uncomfortable for airline crews.
The union representing American flight attendants recently complained that a crew had to sleep on cots at Glacier Park International Airport in Montana when their legal workday ended because there were no hotel rooms available within three hours of Kalispell (population 107,000). The summer tourist rush and a major music festival filled the area up. Last week, a Skywest crew reported they slept on their airplane because there was no other option when they ran out of crew day after
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