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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] Alaska Airlines: 365 [23] JetBlue: 286 [citation needed] Republic Airways: 230 Spirit Airlines: 201 [citation needed] Air Canada: 197 [citation needed] Envoy Air: 147 ...
American Export Airlines (AEA), commonly known as Am Ex, was founded in April 1937 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the shipping company American Export Lines.Transatlantic surveys were done with a Consolidated PBY-4 flying boat and in 1939 AEA placed an order for three Vought-Sikorsky VS-44 flying boats, dubbed 'Flying Aces', named after the parent company's Four Aces.
American Airlines Flight 383 (1965), crashed on approach to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, leaving only 4 survivors out of the 62 onboard American Airlines Flight 383 (2016) , suffered an uncontained engine failure and fire during takeoff at Chicago O'Hare Airport on October 28, 2016
American Airlines Flight 444 was a scheduled American Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C.'s National Airport.On November 15, 1979, the Boeing 727 serving the flight was attacked by Ted Kaczynski (also known as the Unabomber), who sent a pipe bomb in the mail and set it to detonate at a certain altitude.
American Airlines Flight 293 was a regularly scheduled flight from New York City (LaGuardia Airport) to Chicago (O'Hare International Airport). On June 20, 1979, the aircraft serving the flight was hijacked by Nikola Kavaja , a Serbian nationalist and anti-communist .
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 Flight 320, resulted in fatalities). [2]
ATA Airlines, Inc., formerly known as American Trans Air and commonly referred to as ATA, was an American low-cost scheduled service and charter airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana. [1] ATA operated scheduled passenger flights throughout the U.S. mainland and Hawaii , Puerto Rico , and Portugal as well as military and commercial charter ...
Allegheny Airlines was a local service carrier that operated out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1952 to 1979, with routes primarily located in the eastern U.S. [1] It was the forerunner of USAir that was subsequently renamed US Airways, which itself merged with American Airlines.