Shareholders back AMR overhaul plan
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Creditors overwhelmingly approved the bankruptcy reorganization plan for American Airlines parent AMR Corp, which includes a merger with US Airways that would create the world’s biggest airline.
AMR said yesterday that preliminary results show that at least 88 percent of the ballots cast by creditors favored the turnaround plan. AMR shareholders backed the plan even more strongly, with more than 99 percent of shares cast in favor, the company said.
The plan still needs approval from a federal bankruptcy judge in New York, who has scheduled a confirmation hearing for August 15.
Antitrust regulators in the United States Department of Justice are also reviewing the airline’s merger with US Airways.
Since filing for bankruptcy protection in November 2011, AMR has cut labor costs by about one-fifth and ordered hundreds of new planes to update American’s fleet.
AMR expects to close the merger with US Airways and exit bankruptcy by the end of September.
Voting by creditors ended on Monday. The final results must be filed with the bankruptcy court before August 15.
“This is another important milestone toward our launch of the new American,” AMR CEO Tom Horton said in a statement. “The overwhelming support for our plan of reorganization is a testament to the resilience and hard work of the entire American team.”
AMR lost more than US$10 billion after 2000 as the airline industry was buffeted by the 9/11 (September 11, 2001) terror attacks, recessions that curbed travel demand, and spikes in jet fuel prices.
AMR tried to return to profitability by extracting cost-cutting contracts from labor unions in 2003, but that failed. Rivals United, Delta and US Airways went through bankruptcy and emerged with lower costs than American, and United and Delta used acquisitions to surpass American in size.
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