American Airlines’s top executive lashed out at Delta for splitting with other US carriers that support a proposal to privatize the nation’s air-traffic-control system. Delta “doesn’t see what everybody else in the industry sees” about an issue that’s central to airlines’ future, American CEO Doug Parker said Tuesday. Parker, who used a recent speech to the US. Chamber of Commerce to lobby for privatization, made his latest comments during a question and answer session at the CAPA Americas Aviation Summit in Las Vegas. The division over air traffic control isn’t the first time Delta has split with other US airlines. Delta said in October that it would leave Airlines for America, in part because the industry trade group hadn’t taken a strong stance regarding competition from Persian Gulf carriers. “Why is it that Delta believes something different that no other airline believes?” Parker said. “I don’t think it’s because they have different facts. I think it’s because they have a different agenda. What’s best for Delta is for the rest of us to live in an environment that is relatively more harmful to us than to them.”<br/>
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Authorities say a 50-year-old American Airlines co-pilot grounded on suspicion of drunkenness at a Detroit-area airport heads to court next month. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Tuesday that John Maguire will be arraigned and have a pre-trial hearing May 11 in in Romulus, a suburb that's home to Detroit Metropolitan Airport. He's been charged with operating under the influence of alcohol stemming from the March 26 incident. Maguire, from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, was removed from the Detroit-to-Philadelphia flight before takeoff. Authorities say he had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit.<br/>