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American Airlines is recalling about 800 furloughed employees, about 1 percent of its work force, as it adds flights on international routes.CEO Gerard Arpey announced the jobs as American launched a new trans-Atlantic business with British Airways and Spanish airline Iberia. American is working on a similar alliance with Japan Airlines across the Pacific."This is exactly the kind of growth we're looking for, and my hope is that trends like this will continue," Arpey said at a news conference in London.Arpey said that a recent rebound in business traffic and growing signs that the United States would avoid a double-dip recession were encouraging to the airline industry, "but I would have to describe the recovery as fragile."American will recall 250 pilots starting in November and 545 flight attendants starting this month. The airline last recalled pilots in 2009 and flight attendants in 2008. [Read the full article] Major U.S. and European airlines are banding together to oppose government loan guarantees that help rival carriers in other countries buy Boeing and Airbus jets.Delta, American, Southwest, Air France-KLM and British Airways are among the airlines protesting the loan guarantees.A trade group for the U.S. airlines said Wednesday it plans to detail its case to U.S. government officials in the next few days.The loan guarantees are designed to help Boeing and Airbus sell planes and create manufacturing jobs. But big U.S. airlines say they suffer because they don't get the loans but many competitors do. As a result, the U.S. airlines say, they must spend more than some foreign rivals on aircraft financing just when they're beginning to recover from a deep, 2-year slump.The airlines' upcoming appeal to government officials was reported Wednesday by the Wall Street Journal.The Air Transport Association, a trade group for the big U.S. [Read the full article] 
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