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Title: American Airlines
Description: File containing information pertaining to American Airlines, the company that bought out TWA in 2001.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: KC offers bonds, free rent to airline
Description: The City of Kansas City has offered up to $200 million in revenue bonds and a partially rent-free lease to beleaguered American Airlines in an attempt to save 2,000 jobs at its maintenance facility.
Date: 2003-07-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: American's Last KCI Union Jobs Outsourced
Description: Article announces the elimination of the final union jobs under American Airlines at Kansas City International Airport. The article discusses how the troubled airline's bankruptcy status allowed it to alter its dealings with the Transport Workers Union. The decision by American Airlines to fill these jobs with contract laborers from outside firms is also discussed.
Date: 2012-11-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Renewing the Kansas City Spirit
Description: Norman Rockwell's painting of "The Kansas City Spirit" is the basis for this review of the history of some of Kansas City's "titans" and how they have "largely gone," such as the stockyards, Trans World Airways (TWA) and aviation industry, garment production, and automobile manufacturing. What will replace them?
Date: 2009-11-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Overhaul Base Sees End of Era
Description: Article reports on the announcement by American Airlines that they will shut down the 7-million-square-foot maintenance complex at KCI. TWA opened the facility in 1956 and employed as many as 5,200 workers. Less than 500 workers are currently at the base.
Date: 2009-10-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Time Runs Out For Base
Description: After five decades of service, the American Airlines overhaul facility located at Kansas City International Airport will shut down. Since acquiring TWA in 2001, American Airlines has slowly been decreasing its workforce. Two-hundred of the 400 union workers who were employed at the base will transfer to other bases and the rest are expected to retire.
Date: 2010-09-24
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Deal Is a Liftoff for KC
Description: Discussion of the proposed construction of a $375-million aircraft assembly plant with possible 2,100 well-paying jobs by Bombardier Aerospace. Bombardier is a Montreal, Canada, based company. The decision for its location is expected in July at the same time as the Farnborough International Airshow, an "event outside London [that] is one of the world's biggest showcases and marketplaces for aircraft."
Date: 2008-04-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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