More than a dozen flights canceled at Logan
More than a dozen flights from Boston's Logan International Airport were among the 725 flights that American Airlines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. canceled in the last two days as they conduct inspections to address safety issues.
The carriers are scrambling to make sure a bundle of wires associated with operating the plane's landing gear are laced together properly so they meet Federal Aviation Administration requirements.
American, which ranked as Logan's largest airline last year by carrying 16.7 percent of the passengers, canceled five flights yesterday and four today that were headed to Chicago, Dallas, and St. Louis.
Delta, the No. 2 carrier with 16.2 percent of the passengers, would not say how many flights were canceled at Logan. But the airport website's real-time flight database shows Delta canceled nine of today's flights that were going to or from New York LaGuardia, Fort Lauderdale, and Atlanta. It was not clear, however, if the safety inspection was the reason for each of those cancellations.
The decisions to cancel flights were made the night before, American spokesman Ned Raynolds said.
Both airlines expect to finish the inspections tonight and proceed with tomorrow's flights as planned.
The inspections come almost three weeks after the FAA ordered a check of all US airlines' maintenance records. That check was ordered after controversy erupted over the agency's handling of missed safety inspections at Southwest Airlines Co. of Dallas.
(By Nicole Wong, Globe staff)
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