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As of June 2024, the American Airlines fleet consists of 970 mainline aircraft, making it the second-largest commercial airline fleet in the world. [ 1][ 2][ 3] American Airlines operates aircraft manufactured by Boeing and Airbus. Over 80% of American's aircraft are narrow-bodies from the Airbus A320 family and the Boeing 737 family.
Airline Fleet size Ref; American Airlines: 952 [19] Delta Air Lines: 947 [20] United Airlines: 924 [21] Southwest Airlines: 814 [citation needed] SkyWest Airlines: 493 [22] JetBlue: 286 [citation needed] Republic Airways: 230 Alaska Airlines: 221 [citation needed] Spirit Airlines: 201 [citation needed] Air Canada: 197 [citation needed] Envoy ...
October 30, 1941: American Airlines Flight 1, a Douglas DC-3 en route from New York City to Detroit with two stopovers at Buffalo and Chicago, stalled and dived into a plowed field over St. Thomas, Ontario, in Canada killing all 20 on board after circling to look for a place to land. Cause undetermined.
The DC-10's first accident happened on the 12 June 1972 with American Airlines Flight 96. The aircraft suffered a Cargo door failure due to a design flaw, leading to rapid decompression . Thankfully the crew and the pilot managed to emergency land the aircraft and all 67 occupants escaped safely.
Greg Smith ( Chairman) Employees. 103,200 (2023) [ 7] Website. aa.com. 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.
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 ...
c. 1,600 in or near the North Tower of the World Trade Center. 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 a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating after American Airlines Flight 271, an Airbus A320, "made a hard landing" on the runway around 2:00 p.m. local time.