American Airlines is a founding member of the Oneworld alliance, the third-largest airline alliance in the world. Regional service is operated by independent and subsidiary carriers under the brand name American Eagle. The airline handles more than 200 million passengers annually with an average of more than 500,000 passengers daily. As of 2021, the company employs 123,400 staff members.
The company’s milestones:
On April 15, 1926 – Charles Lindbergh flew the first American Airlines flight – carrying U.S. mail from St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago, Illinois. After 8 years of mail routes, the airline began to form into what it is today.
1936 – American is the first airline to fly the DC-3 in commercial service from New York to Chicago
1939 – All American Aviation, later US Airways, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1945 – American Airlines begins operating service for the first time with American Overseas Airlines
1946 – American Airlines establishes its maintenance and engineering base in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1953 – American Airlines pioneers nonstop transcontinental service across the U.S. with the Douglas DC-7
1957 – American Airlines opens the world’s first special facility for flight attendant training, the American Airlines Stewardess College, in Dallas/Fort Worth.
1959 – American Airlines introduces the Lockheed Electra, the first U.S.-designed turboprop plane
1970 – American Airlines merges with Trans Caribbean Airways, gaining Caribbean routes.
1981 – American Airlines introduces AAdvantage®, the first airline loyalty program.
1984 – American Airlines introduces the American Eagle system.
1991 – American Airlines celebrates its 1 billionth customer.
1997 – All American flights become nonsmoking.
2008 – American Airlines introduces mobile boarding passes.
2013 – AMR Corporation and US Airways Group officially form the American Airlines Group.
2015 – American’s Robert W. Baker Integrated Operations Center opens in Fort Worth.
2017 – Air Transport World names America its 2017 Airline of the Year.
February 2020 – The airline announced the creation of a West Coast International Alliance with Alaska Airlines.
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