American Airlines was founded in 1930 in USA. American Airlines’s headquarters are currently located in Fort Worth and the main base in Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. American Airlines is not a star alliance member. The company has 3 stars on Skytrax rating and has won the Skytrax awards Best First Class in North America. Doug Parker Chairman leads the company as the CEO. Its subsidiaries include Robertson Aircraft Corporation, Texas Aero Engine Service LLC, American Aviation Supply LLC, American Airlines Vacations LLC, Aerosan Airport Services s.a. and American Airlines Cargo.

American Airlines employs more than 126,600 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 964 aircraft. It has declared $ 42,210,000,000 in revenue. American Airlines offers service to 330 destinations in 50 countries and they have carried more than 199.6 million passengers in 2017.

American Airlines’s fleet consists of Boeing 737 Next Gen model aircrafts. The average age of the fleet is 10.6 years. The youngest aircrafts are the Boeing 787 at 2 years old. They rank 17 among 54 airlines operating this type of aircraft. The most common aircraft in the fleet is the Boeing 737 Next Gen with 316 of them at hand. They rank 103 among 249 airlines operating this type of aircraft.

American Airlines have 11 accident reports to date. The most recent one is in 2016 at Chicago ORD, USA with Boeing 767 aircraft.