What if I already have a ticket and this happens?

[JenTay]

I will be attending a wedding in Chicago next weekend. Leaving thursday and back on Sunday. Am I going to be a no-show bridesmaid if USAir goes belly up? Does anyone know how this bankruptcy thing works? Will the planes stop flying?


US Airways Pilots Offer Final Talks
By MICHELINE MAYNARD

Published: September 11, 2004



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he leadership of the pilots' union at US Airways voted late last night to hold last-ditch talks with the airline on its bid for wage and benefit cuts. The emergency move came as the company appeared headed for a Chapter 11 filing as early as tomorrow , people who had been briefed on the situation said yesterday.

Meanwhile, the federal loan board, which assisted US Airways, paving its way out of its last Chapter 11 filing, met in Washington to discuss the airline's plight.

If US Airways seeks bankruptcy protection, it would be the first airline to default on loan guarantees awarded by the Air Transportation Stabilization Board, which was created after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington three years ago