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The ordeal that saved American Airlines
04/26/2003
By ERIC TORBENSON / The Dallas Morning News
Donald Carty knew he couldn’t save his job.
But in a nail-biting meeting Wednesday with American Airlines union leaders, the AMR Corp. chairman believed he could still save his airline.
Mr. Carty would be off the AMR payroll in just hours, but the topic “was an elephant in that room that no one brought up,†said John Darrah, president of the Allied Pilots Association.
“I saw more leadership in those 12 hours from Mr. Carty than I had seen from him in the last two years,†Mr. Darrah said.
The daylong union-management showdown began a 50-hour odyssey at the world’s largest airline, with the clock ticking toward bankruptcy for the fourth time in four weeks.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/da....13b90f2bf.html
04/26/2003
By ERIC TORBENSON / The Dallas Morning News
Donald Carty knew he couldn’t save his job.
But in a nail-biting meeting Wednesday with American Airlines union leaders, the AMR Corp. chairman believed he could still save his airline.
Mr. Carty would be off the AMR payroll in just hours, but the topic “was an elephant in that room that no one brought up,†said John Darrah, president of the Allied Pilots Association.
“I saw more leadership in those 12 hours from Mr. Carty than I had seen from him in the last two years,†Mr. Darrah said.
The daylong union-management showdown began a 50-hour odyssey at the world’s largest airline, with the clock ticking toward bankruptcy for the fourth time in four weeks.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/da....13b90f2bf.html