Summary: American will operate about 50 percent of its MD80 schedule Friday morning and that is expected to rise to 60 percent by 4 p.m. Central. There were 595 MD80 flight cancellations in place on Friday.

·         American had 226 of its 300 MD80s in service early Friday morning.

·         Customers who were scheduled on a flight that was canceled may request a full refund or apply the value of their ticket toward future travel on American. Additionally, customers scheduled to travel on any MD-80 flight April 8-13, even if their flight has not been canceled, may rebook without a change fee to any AA flight with availability in the same cabin as long as their travel begins by April 17.

·         Customers who were inconvenienced with overnight stays can go to AA.com where a link has been established to request information about compensation. Customers also are being encouraged to continue to check AA.com or to contact their travel agents for flight status information.