Allied Pilots Association Provides Contact Information for Official Spokespersons.

Business Editors

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2002

The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which serves as collective bargaining agent for the 13,500 pilots of American Airlines (NYSE:AMR), has published the following updated list of official spokespersons for news

Central Time Zone

Captain Steve Blankenship
APA Communications Committee Chairman
817/302-2350 (office)
773/580-0604 (cellular)
580/208-3060 (home)
sblankenship@hq.alliedpilots.org

Gregg Overman
APA Communications Director
817/302-2250 (office)
817/312-3901 (cellular)
214/826-0460 (home)
goverman@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@cox.net)

The office telephone numbers provided for Captain Blankenship and Mr. Overman are normally answered between 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Central, Monday through Friday during non-holiday periods. Captain Blankenship 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. APA also provides up-to-date information via its web site at www.alliedpilots.org

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