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  • Last Flight for US Airways Expected on October 17th

    Aviation buffs might want to make their reservations now for US Airways Flight 434 or Flight 496 on the evening of Oct. 16.

    Those two flights will be the last departures under the US Airways brand as American Airlines Group Inc. prepares to put all reservations for travel on Oct. 17 and after under its American Airlines brand.

    Both Flight 434 from San Francisco and Flight 496 from Phoenix are scheduled to take off at the same minute: 9:55 p.m. PDT for the San Francisco flight and 9:55 p.m. MST for the Phoenix flight.

    But Flight 434 lands nearly four hours later, at 6:18 a.m. EDT Oct. 17 in Philadelphia, compared with Flight 496’s 12:34 a.m. MDT arrival Oct. 17 in Denver.

    And of course, that’s more than three months away — schedules can and often do change, American cautions. That’s just the way it looks right now.

    American actually begins the countdown next weekend to the end of US Airways Inc.

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    Philipovitch, American’s senior vice president for customer service, outlined some of the steps American is taking to get ready for the Oct. 17 move to a single system:

    More than 8,000 airport agents will go through five-day training programs.

    1,600 reservations agents will receive four weeks of training.

    The airline has hired more than 600 airport agents and almost 1,300 reservations agents to boost those ranks and to cover for the employees who will be gone for training.

    “We are getting ready and excited to go,” Philipovitch said.

    Airport kiosks will change over to the AA displays. Signage will change. American is in the process of developing new uniforms for employees, but will add things to US Airways uniforms to mark them as AA.

    Although US Airways is disappearing as a brand, it’ll take some time longer for it to disappear completely: American estimates that American’s paint job won’t be on all US Airways planes until second quarter 2016.


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    Originally posted by B757300 View Post
    Aviation buffs might want to make their reservations now for US Airways Flight 434 or Flight 496 on the evening of Oct. 16.

    Those two flights will be the last departures under the US Airways brand as American Airlines Group Inc. prepares to put all reservations for travel on Oct. 17 and after under its American Airlines brand.
    They are going to a single reservation system, but they moved to a single operating certificate in April, and all flights have operated under the "American" call sign since then.
    KC-135: Passing gas and taking names!

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