American Airlines: Safe booking bet

I have some discount coupons for American Airlines, and am thinking of using
them to fly from Portland, OR to Miami. Does anyone know if AA has
stablized? I will be flying down the day before, but I don't want to find
out a week before I leave that AA has finally gone under....

I'd say get insurance... but my experience is that they'll use any trick in
the book to not pay (remember... they make money when you pay them... not
when they pay you). Particularly outfits like CSA.

--Tom

"Chip" wrote in message
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I have some discount coupons for American Airlines, and am thinking of
using them to fly from Portland, OR to Miami. Does anyone know if AA has
stablized? I will be flying down the day before, but I don't want to find
out a week before I leave that AA has finally gone under....

Insurance is a good idea, but be sure to check that they cover
American Airlines. Of course having insurance will get you your money
back, but it won't get you on another flight if AA goes out of business.

sue

Tom K wrote:

I'd say get insurance... but my experience is that they'll use any trick in
the book to not pay (remember... they make money when you pay them... not
when they pay you). Particularly outfits like CSA.

--Tom

"Chip" wrote in message
...

I have some discount coupons for American Airlines, and am thinking of
using them to fly from Portland, OR to Miami. Does anyone know if AA has
stablized? I will be flying down the day before, but I don't want to find
out a week before I leave that AA has finally gone under....

Thus spake Sue and Kevin Mullen :

Insurance is a good idea, but be sure to check that they cover
American Airlines. Of course having insurance will get you your money
back, but it won't get you on another flight if AA goes out of business.

The insurance must cover financial insolvency of the carrier. And if
the airline is already in bankruptcy, they won't cover it.


sue

Tom K wrote:

I'd say get insurance... but my experience is that they'll use any trick in
the book to not pay (remember... they make money when you pay them... not
when they pay you). Particularly outfits like CSA.

Don't know about CSA, but yup on insurance companies as a whole.
Sooner or later, they're going to require you to ship a heart before
they'll pay on a life insurance policy. Ooops, hope that doesn't give
them any ideas.


--Tom

"Chip" wrote in message
...

I have some discount coupons for American Airlines, and am thinking of
using them to fly from Portland, OR to Miami. Does anyone know if AA has
stablized? I will be flying down the day before, but I don't want to find
out a week before I leave that AA has finally gone under....







--
dillon

"When the French are against it, you know we can't
be far wrong." - Adm. Bobbie Ray Inman

I have some discount coupons for American Airlines, and am thinking of
using
them to fly from Portland, OR to Miami. Does anyone know if AA has
stablized? I will be flying down the day before, but I don't want to find
out a week before I leave that AA has finally gone under....

Other than SouthWest, are there any major airlines left that are
"stabilized"? I view it as a crapshoot and hope I get lucky. USAir, United,
Continental, Northwest are all in trouble. Up until last week, _my_ pick
would have Delta. vbseg

Dillon Pyron wrote:

Thus spake Sue and Kevin Mullen :


Insurance is a good idea, but be sure to check that they cover
American Airlines. Of course having insurance will get you your money
back, but it won't get you on another flight if AA goes out of business.


The insurance must cover financial insolvency of the carrier. And if
the airline is already in bankruptcy, they won't cover it.

The only safe way to find out if an airline is covered, is to check
with your insurance company.

sue

When are you flying? Airlines declare and hang around in bankruptcy for
months or years before there are any issues. United declared in December of
200, they are still flying. US Airlines headed for protection in September
of 2001, came out March of 03, and filed again in Sept 2004, and are still
flying.

ATA has been flying under bankruptcy since October, and is still flying.

That aren't going to go under with just a weeks notice.

If you are worried about it, get a fully refundable full fare ticket on an
airline you think won't be in any trouble when you have to fly, and turn it
in if American is still flying, use it if they don't.




"Chip" wrote in message
...
I have some discount coupons for American Airlines, and am thinking of
using them to fly from Portland, OR to Miami. Does anyone know if AA has
stablized? I will be flying down the day before, but I don't want to find
out a week before I leave that AA has finally gone under....