{"id":373772,"date":"2026-02-22T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/50-pay-rise-american-airlines-ceo-union-praise-psa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:00:17","slug":"50-pay-rise-american-airlines-ceo-earns-rare-union-praise-after-landmark-psa-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=373772","title":{"rendered":"50% Pay Rise: American Airlines CEO Earns Rare Union Praise After Landmark PSA Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> labor story just received a rather unusual plot twist. Despite being under fire lately, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom just received high praise from a union leader. PSA Airlines&#8217; flight attendants, a union representing regional crews that operate flights marketed under American Eagle, reached a tentative three-year contract featuring an immediate 10% overall wage bump, alongside boarding pay that was now worth roughly another 15-16% on average, alongside retro pay and scheduling upgrades as additional benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO has been under pressure lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,1839,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-ceo","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373773,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373772\/revisions\/373773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}