Leslie Mayo

American Airlines And US Airways Team Members Say: 'Let Us Compete. Together.'

CHARLOTTE, N.C., EULESS, Texas, FORT WORTH, Texas, and WASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ Over the past two days, hundreds of members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA ('AFA'), the Allied Pilots Association ('APA'), the Association of Professional Flight Attendants ('APFA'), the Communications Workers of America ('CWA'), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters ('IBT'), the Transport Workers Union ('TWU') and the US Airline Pilots Association ('USAPA'), unions representing 70,000 American Airlines and US Airways employees, including pilots, flight attendants, mechanics, technicians, aircraft dispatchers, call center representatives, airport customer service agents and fleet service employees, traveled to Washington D.C. and met with more than fifty Senators and nearly 300 congressmen to make the case for the benefits of combining American Airlines and US Airways.