American Airlines information

American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a major airline of the United States. AA is a subsidiary of the AMR Corporation,  headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, adjacent to the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. American Airlines operates scheduled flights throughout the United States and worldwide including Egypt. American Airlines carries more passengers between the US and Latin America than any other airline.

Boeing 777 airplane - one of the 616 aircrafts of American Airlines

American Airlines History

American Airlines was developed from a conglomeration of 82 small airlines through acquisitions and reorganizations: initially, American Airways was a common brand by a number of independent carriers. These included Southern Air Transport in Texas, Southern Air Fast Express (SAFE) in the western US, Universal Aviation in the Midwest (which operated a transcontinental air/rail route in 1929), Thompson Aeronautical Services and Colonial Air Transport.

On January 25, 1930, American Airways was incorporated as a single company, based in New York, with routes from Boston, New York and Chicago to Dallas, and from Dallas to Los Angeles. The airline operated wood and fabric-covered Fokker Trimotors and all-metal Ford Trimotors. In 1934 American began flying Curtiss Condor biplanes with sleeping berths.

After World War II, American Airlines launched an international subsidiary, American Overseas Airlines, to serve Europe; AOA was sold to Pan Am in 1950. AA launched another subsidiary, Líneas Aéreas Americanas de Mexico S.A., to fly to Mexico and built several airports there. American Airlines provided advertising and free usage of its aircraft in the 1951 film.

In 1990, American Airlines bought the assets of TWA's operations at London Heathrow for $445 million. In 2001 AA acquired TWA.

The fleet of American Airlines consists of 616 Boeing, Airbus and MD-80 airplanes.

American Airlines office in Egypt

Address: 20 El Gehad street, Mohandeseen, Cairo
Tel: +20 (2) 33470033
Fax: +20 (2) 33455707

American Airlines destinations in Africa

American Airlines destinations in Europe

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