American Airlines Group And the union that represents its pilots is discussing additional pay for some pilots to compensate them for flying flights that were taken off their schedules because of a computer glitch, the union said on Sunday. .
The Allied Pilots’ Association union said on Saturday that the airline’s scheduling platform accidentally allowed pilots to skip thousands of future trips on Saturday night. As a result, 12,075 flights throughout July were short of a captain, a first officer or both, the union said on Saturday.