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In just four days American Airlines has had to cancel almost 3,000 flights, as its MD-80 fleet had to be inspected for emergency security measures.

On the fourth day after starting the inspections to ensure the MD-80 complies with the  Federal Aviation Administration directive related to the bundling of wires in the wheel well of the MD-80 aircraft, 170 of the fleet were expected to be providing full service.

Wednesday April 9 AA had to cancel 1,094 flights, 930 on Thursday and today more than 500 flights were cancelled.

AA says it will give full refunds to all passengers on cancelled flights, or the possibility to use the value of their ticket towards future travel with airline.

The airline has apologized to all its customers for the inconvenience caused by the cancellations.