{"id":253751,"date":"2026-07-28T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:24:07","slug":"american-airlines-pittsburgh-institute-of-aeronautics-partner-to-create-maintenance-technician-pipe-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/253751\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines, Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics partner to create maintenance technician pipe \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/american-airlines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines<\/a> and the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics announced Friday a partnership that will provide students a pathway to jobs as maintenance technicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">American is the world\u2019s largest airline and in 2015, it absorbed one-time Pittsburgh airline US Airways. American, and before it US Airways and Allegheny Airlines, has had a maintenance base in Pittsburgh for decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics\u2019 aviation maintenance technology students will be able to take through the partnership hands-on tours of American\u2019s maintenance facilities and other opportunities for exposure to working aviation maintenance technicians. The top PIA graduates will be able to get guaranteed interviews for positions with American. The memorandum of understanding is the latest relationship between PIA and American Airlines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/24\/american-airlines-pittsburgh-institute-aeronautics.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/07\/24\/american-airlines-pittsburgh-institute-aeronautics.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines and the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics announced Friday a partnership that will provide students a pathway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25831,108217,108218,73,75,108216,74],"class_list":["post-253751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-american-airlines","tag-aviation-maintenance-technology","tag-job-pathway","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-institute-of-aeronautics","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}