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American Air Poised to Recall Workers After New Payroll Aid

Travelers use check-in kiosks at an American Airlines counter.

Travelers use check-in kiosks at an American Airlines counter.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

American Airlines Group Inc. will begin recalling furloughed employees as soon as U.S. lawmakers approve a relief package with payroll funds for airlines, Chief Executive Officer Doug Parker said.

The first paychecks are set to be issued as soon as Dec. 24 to workers who had been sent home, Parker and American’s president, Robert Isom, said Monday in a memo to employees. Pay and benefits would be retroactive to Dec. 1.