AMR seeking to void labor contracts

DALLAS (AP) — Officials with American Airlines will try to convince a bankruptcy judge that labor agreements must be broken for the carrier to survive.

Leaders of the Fort Worth-based airline on Monday will be at a federal courthouse in New York to open what could be a two-month hearing.

Parent company AMR seeks to void its contracts with pilots, flight attendants and ground workers and impose its own terms.

The airline lost more than $10 billion in the decade leading up to its declaration of bankruptcy last November.

The airline's unions say company leaders are unfairly blaming workers instead of doing something to make American grow and bring in more revenue.

The unions have supported a potential bid by US Airways to merge with AMR.

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