This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by psa188@juno.com. /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Share the spirit with a gift from Starbucks. Our coffee brewers & espresso machines at special holiday prices. http://www.starbucks.com/shop/subcategory.asp?category_name=Sale/Clearance&ci=274&cookie_test=1 \----------------------------------------------------------/ AMR Rejects Pilot Request on Regional Jets January 26, 2002 By BLOOMBERG NEWS FORT WORTH, Jan. 25 - The AMR Corporation (news/quote) rejected a proposal today from its American Airlines pilots to shift the flying of regional jets from its commuter unit, American Eagle, to American Airlines. AMR said the plan was not financially sound. The proposal from the Allied Pilots Association came after American, the largest carrier, asked pilots to waive a contract provision limiting growth at the American Eagle unit. AMR wants to expand its use of regional jets, aircraft that are less expensive to operate than larger jetliners and can fly farther than turboprops, to feed passengers to American Airlines. The pilots want to keep the growth restrictions on American Eagle as long as some American pilots remain laid off as a result of the steepened decline in travel since the Sept. 11 hijackings. "We told them it wasn't economically feasible," an American spokeswoman, Karen Watson, said. "The cost structures of the two are very different." The pilots union criticized the company for dismissing its three-phase proposal instead of negotiating specific terms or trying to reach a compromise on a short-term solution. "The specific cost structure under which these aircraft would be flown by our pilots would have been a negotiable item had management wished to pursue discussions," a union spokesman, Gregg Overman, said in a recorded message to pilots. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/26/business/26AMR.html?ex=1013093806&ei=1&en=dabb9197f82b1f04 HOW TO ADVERTISE --------------------------------- For information on advertising in e-mail newsletters or other creative advertising opportunities with The New York Times on the Web, please contact Alyson Racer at alyson@nytimes.com or visit our online media kit at http://www.nytimes.com/adinfo For general information about NYTimes.com, write to help@nytimes.com. Copyright 2001 The New York Times Company