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Update Wednesday morning: American cancels more flights

American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights last night and today to do more inspections of wiring in its MD-80 jets. At PHL, at least five late afternoon and evening arrivals or departures to and from DFW and O'Hare had been annulled last night and 15 flights for today were canceled. (check www.flightstats.com or www.phl.org for the latest). Read the updated story from this morning here.

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YHS:

It's a shame that American and all of the other Airlines could not do the job right the first time..Finally, the FAA is doing it's job and the airlines are listening. Thank You Southwest for starting all this mess by not doing your job.

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Tom Belden, a former Inquirer business writer, has written about Philadelphia International Airport, airlines, the travel industry, the conventions and meetings business for 25 years. He has traveled to all 50 states and extensively in Europe and Mexico.


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