American Cancels Flights Because of Shoddy Overhead Bins
Skift Take
We'd like to think airlines would catch poor retrofit work before an aircraft flies passengers, but clearly that didn't happen here.
American Airlines temporarily has removed from service 14 of its Boeing 737-800 jets because work to add new overhead bins on some aircraft "was not up to our standards," an airline spokesman said Thursday.
American said it found issues with bin retrofits on two aircraft, but took the rest out of service to ensure those aircraft do not have similar problems. An airline spokesman did not say wh
