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American Airlines, Inc. American Airlines is a major airline in the United States headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights. American, together with its regional partners and ...
Los Angeles. New York–JFK. New York–LaGuardia. Washington–National. 1926. Founded as American Airways and commenced operations in 1936 as American Air Lines; largest airline in the world based on airline company revenue, scheduled passenger miles flown (per year), and fleet size. Avelo Airlines. XP.
AAdvantage is the frequent-flyer program of American Airlines. Launched May 1, 1981, it was the second such loyalty program in the world (after the first at Texas International Airlines in 1979) and remains the largest, with more than 115 million members as of April, 2021. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Miles accumulated in the program allow members to redeem ...
American Airlines is the world’s largest airline by fleet size and passenger capacity. With almost 1,000 planes, it operates nearly 7,000 flights per day to hundreds of cities in nearly 60 ...
American Airlines Flight 11 was a domestic passenger flight that was hijacked by five al-Qaeda terrorists on the morning of September 11, 2001, as part of the September 11 attacks. The hijacked airliner was deliberately crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex in New York City, killing everyone still alive aboard the ...
American Airlines Group Inc. is an American publicly traded airline holding company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. It was formed on December 9, 2013, by the merger of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, and US Airways Group, the parent company of US Airways. [5] Integration was completed when the Federal Aviation ...
Betty Ong. Betty Ann Ong[1] (Chinese: 鄧月薇, Taishanese Ang 4 ngut 4 mi 3; February 5, 1956 – September 11, 2001 [2]) was an American flight attendant who worked for American Airlines and boarded Flight 11, the first airplane hijacked during the September 11 attacks. [3] Ong was the first person to alert authorities to the hijackings ...
List of American Airlines accidents and incidents. As of March 2019, American Airlines has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses, beginning with the crash of an Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931. [1][2] Of the hull losses, most were propeller driven aircraft, including three Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft (of which one, the crash in 1959 of ...