Cancellations With American Airlines Soar -- Note To the Granddaughters

Link to the story that cancellations with American Airlines are soaring.

Note to the granddaughters: the granddaughters never want to fly American Airlines again, July 23, 2012.

MDW related the story how two little girls, ages 5 and 8, were flying unaccompanied. They had each been given $5 in cash by their daddy to buy a meal for their cross-country flight -- Boston to Los Angeles. In-flight they learned that the flight attendants would accept only credit cards. Neither passengers nor flight attendants were willing to take the $10 in cash and pay for a snack for the girls with a credit card. The girls are pretty young, but the first thing they said when they got off the plane: "We're never going to fly American Airlines again." Non-customers for life.

The announcement that American Airlines declared bankruptcy back in late 2011 was so far below the radar that the initial link was found at the Drudge Report, November 29, 2011.