FORT WORTH, TX – Allied Pilots Association President Capt. Keith Wilson issued a statement regarding technical correction legislation that, if approved, would enable American Airlines employees to proceed with deferring taxes on equity received as part of the airlineโs Chapter 11 restructuring.
In the House, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is the billโs sponsor and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) is the co-sponsor. In the Senate, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) is the billโs sponsor and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is the co-sponsor.
โWe sincerely appreciate Sen. Inhofe and Rep. Sessions for their demonstrated commitment to fairness. Congress previously approved legislation that would permit American Airlines pilots and other workers to defer taxes on most of the equity we received in the new American Airlines, as employees from other carriers that went through bankruptcy restructuring were able to do. This technical correction legislation affirms the will of Congress, and we look forward to its prompt passage.
โOnce again, we want to express our appreciation to Sen. Inhofe and Rep. Sessions for aggressively representing the interests of the many American Airlines employees who live and work in Oklahoma and Texas.โ
If approved, the legislation โ S. 1646 and H.R. 2865 โ would amend the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 โto make a technical correction relating to the amendments made by Public Law 113-243.โ