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26 unusual facts about American airlines


Agora Financial

In the investigations following 9/11, the SEC determined that an unusual number of investors had purchased put options on American Airlines immediately prior to September 11, 2001.

Airbus A320neo family

A month later American Airlines ordered 130 A320neo's on 20 July 2011, which would cause the airline to cease having an all-Boeing fleet.

American Airlines

In 1970 American Airlines had flights from St. Louis, Chicago, and New York to Honolulu and on to Sydney and Auckland via American Samoa and Nadi, Fiji.

American's regional airline, American Eagle, was to retire 35 to 40 regional jets as well as its Saab turboprop fleet.

Envoy, SkyWest, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, and ExpressJet Airlines operate regional flights for American Airlines under the American Eagle brand.

Angela Masson

Flying as Captain for over 20 years, she was the first female Chief Pilot for American Airlines (Miami domicile, 1997).

Her paper was read by Robert Crandall, then President of American Airlines, who hired her as a pilot for American in 1976, at age 25.

Bob Valesente

The Arizona coaches were alleged to have engaged in a conspiracy with an American Airlines employee in which the airline employee allegedly gave Mason and his coaching staff ticket receipts for trips they never took, which the coaches then submitted for reimbursement to the university.

British Aerospace Jetstream 41

Trans States Airlines (25) - aircraft operated as American Connection, Delta Connection and Trans World Express providing passenger feed service on behalf of respective major air carrier partners American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Trans World Airlines (TWA).

Clostridium perfringens

In May 2011, a man died after allegedly eating food contaminated with the bacteria on a transatlantic American Airlines flight.

Family Travel Forum

The same year, American Airlines and Northeast Airlines allowed mothers and children to pay half fare when traveling with dad mid-week, while TWA advertised that their air hostesses were trained to help moms with their babies, who flew free of charge.

Fieldglass

As of Q1 2013, Fieldglass' client base includes approximately 200 customers, including AIG, American Airlines, BMC Software, CVS Caremark, GlaxoSmithKline, HMS, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Monsanto, Nokia Siemens Networks, Panasonic, Reed Elsevier, Rio Tinto, Salesforce, Siemens, TELUS, United Airlines, Verizon and VMware.

Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China

HSYLC 2006, supported by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and American Airlines, recruited 37 Harvard students to create and teach a curriculum at a school in Shanghai.

Hayden, Colorado

Hayden is one of the smallest communities in the U.S. to have mainline passenger jet service provided by American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines on a scheduled basis, if only during the winter months when the ski season is underway in nearby Steamboat Springs.

Humanitarian response by for-profit organisations to the 2010 Haiti earthquake

American Airlines operated relief flights and allowed employees and customers to donate miles with a company match.

Ike Sewell

After college, Sewell worked for several years with American Airlines.

Jack Tompkins

In 1935, Tompkins began a career with American Airlines, the company for which he continued to work for more than 30 years.

He worked for more than 30 years for American Airlines in Detroit and became a civic leader in the area, working to bring the Olympic Games to Detroit from the 1940s to the 1960s and founding the Great Lakes Invitational hockey tournament in 1965.

Mary Froning

In 1956, Froning became a stewardess for American Airlines along with her twin sister, Martha, until she married Tom O'Meara in 1958 and moved to Madison, Wisconsin.

Proud American

The film holds the distinction of having obtained additional funding through overt sponsorship of the two companies, as well as MasterCard and American Airlines, whose product placement can be observed throughout the film.

Régine Zylberberg

A feisty and outspoken person by nature, in 1996 Régine and her son were arrested for refusing to comply with crew requests and smoking on an American Airlines flight.

Shakal Pe Mat Ja

They get caught while capturing an American Airlines aircraft landing on their camera, which they claim to have shot for a documentary that they are making.

The Cables

Drummond earned a living working in a shoe factory during The Cables' peak and moved to the United States in 1979, later working for American Airlines.

Virginia Arts Festival

Corporate sponsors include American Airlines, Bank of America, Norfolk Southern, Suntrust, The Dalis Foundation, WHRO, and other private businesses from around the region.

Westfield-Barnes Regional Airport

American Airlines DC-3s operated out of Westfield from 1938 until 1950.

Yumbo

Nine airlines provide service for the airport, including American Airlines, AeroRepública, and Avianca, Colombia's largest airline.


Air route authority between the United States and China

In June 2005, the U.S. Department of Transportation awarded American Airlines authority to fly between Chicago and Shanghai as well as authority to Continental Airlines to fly between Newark and Beijing.

Airfone

Airfone's primary competitor was Air One, operated by AT&T Wireless division Claircom Communications Group, and was available onboard American Airlines, Northwest Airlines, and select Delta Air Lines aircraft.

Antigua

The island's single airport is served by several major airlines, including Virgin Atlantic, British Airways, US Airways, American Airlines, United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Caribbean Airlines, Air Canada, WestJet and LIAT.

Bonnie Cashin

She designed for companies ranging including American Airlines, Samsonite, Bergdorf Goodman, White Stag, and Hermès; she was the first American designer to have a boutique in Liberty's of London.

Daphne Willis

Vanguard Records head Kevin Welk heard one of Willis' songs on an American Airlines flight and sent A&R rep Gary Paczosa to Chicago to meet her.

Diane Paragas

As a commercial director, she has directed campaigns for American Airlines, Andrew Cuomo, care.com and Proust.com for which she won first place in the Google TV For All Contest.

Flat rate

At some stage, the concept of the flat rate was even introduced into passenger air traffic in the form of American Airlines' AAirpass.

Fort Worth Alliance Airport

It formerly served as a maintenance hub for DFW-based American Airlines, until the bankruptcy filing and subsequent restructuring of its parent AMR Corporation.

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

El Nuevo Día, Chrysler, Santander Securities, Puerto Rico Telephone, and many sales offices for large US firms (such as Texaco, Microsoft, American Airlines, Dell and others) have their Puerto Rican headquarters in Guaynabo.

Isaac Hayes III

Ike has performed voice-over work for various companies such as the Atlanta Hawks, the Georgia Lottery, McDonald's, Publix, American Airlines, and Cadillac.

Laura Glading

Glading has been an outspoken advocate in support of the American Airlines–US Airways merger and has appeared alongside Neil Roghair, vice president of the Allied Pilots Association to urge approval of the planned merger over U.S. Justice Department opposition.

Naval Air Station Oakland

After the war, airlines slowly returned to Oakland: Western Airlines began flights in 1946, and was followed by American Airlines, TWA, United and Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).

Pedro Fábregas

Pedro Fábregas (born 12 April 1965) is an officer at American Airlines Group, the parent company of American Airlines, US Airways and American Eagle Airlines.

Peter D. Hart

NGOs and institutions like Smithsonian Institution, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Habitat for Humanity, the ACLU, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Kennedy Center are clients of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, as well as corporations such as Boeing, Time-Warner, American Airlines, Coca-Cola, IBM, Fannie Mae, AT&T, and Tiffany & Co..

Robert Milton

Shortly after he became CEO, American Airlines and Onex initiated a hostile takeover bid for Air Canada, which Milton helped to successfully defeat.

Site59.com

In addition to its own web site, Site59 operated a private label distribution (ASP) product, powering last-minute sections of Travelocity, AOL Travel, CheapTickets, Yahoo! Travel, American Airlines Vacations, Delta Air Lines Vacations, Continental Airlines Vacations, Northwest's nwa.com, and Bestfares.com, among others.

Thalys

In May 1999, the new high-speed line serving Charles de Gaulle Airport opened, and Thalys started direct services from the Airport to Brussels, including code sharing agreements with Air France, American Airlines and Northwest Airlines.