Boeing 737 grounding, labor dispute delays American's plan to increase seating on planes

American Airlines delays adding more seats to planes amid Boeing 737 Max grounding, labor strife

This year "should have been much better for American," American's president, Robert Isom, said at an investor conference on Wednesday. "There are no excuses. It is our job to get our arms around this."

"We thought that we would be much further along," he said. "But our modification program, as a result of the operations difficulties, we had to put that on hiatus."

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