Allied Pilots Association Provides Contact Information for Official Spokespersons.

Business Editors

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2002

The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which serves as collective bargaining agent for the 11,000 pilots of American Airlines (NYSE:AMR), has published the following list of official spokespersons for news media

    Eastern Time Zone

Captain Sam Mayer
Member, APA Communications Committee
Vice Chairman, APA New York Domicile
203/981-9690 (cellular)
203/438-6756 (home)
sammayer@earthlink.net

    Central Time Zone

Gregg Overman
APA Director of Communications
817/302-2250 (office)
817/312-3901 (cellular)
214/826-0460 (home)
goverman@hq.alliedpilots.org

Captain Karl Schricker
APA Communications Committee Chairman
817/302-2350 (office)
972/877-6828 (cellular)
972/724-0026 (home)
kschricker@hq.alliedpilots.org

    Pacific Time Zone

Captain Linda Pauwels
Member, APA Communications Committee
Trilingual: English, French, Spanish
714/235-6977 (cellular)
949/951-6977 (home)
lindapauwels@home.net (after 2/18/02 lindapauwels@cox.net)

The office telephone numbers provided for Mr. Overman and Captain Schricker are normally answered between 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Central, Monday through Friday during non-holiday periods. Captain Schricker, Captain Mayer and Captain Pauwels are active line pilots for American Airlines and, as such, may not be readily available depending upon their flying schedules. APA respectfully requests that you limit after-hours use of home and cellular telephone numbers to urgent inquiries concerning breaking news stories that cannot wait until the next business day.

For up-to-date information concerning APA activities, news media representatives are welcome to call the union's toll-free information hotline at 800/272-7456. APA generally updates this hotline every Friday afternoon. If events warrant, the union provides more frequent updates via this hotline.

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, APA was founded in 1963.