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| American Eagle |
IATA
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ICAO
EGF |
Callsign
Eagle Flight |
| Founded |
1984 |
| Hubs |
Dallas-Fort Worth Int'l Airport
O'Hare International Airport
Miami International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport
John F. Kennedy Int'l Airport
Logan International Airport
Raleigh-Durham Int'l Airport
Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport
San Jose International Airport
LaGuardia Airport
Luis Muñoz Marín Int'l Airport
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| Frequent flyer program |
AAdvantage |
| Member lounge |
Admirals Club |
| Alliance |
oneworld (Affiliate) |
| Fleet size |
258 |
| Destinations |
140 |
| Parent company |
AMR Corporation |
| Headquarters |
Fort Worth, Texas |
| Key people |
Peter M. Bowler (CEO) |
| Website: http://www.aa.com/content/footer/eagleOverview.jhtml |
American Eagle Airlines is an airline based in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. It is a regional airline partner of American Airlines (both wholly owned by AMR Corporation), operating over 1,600 flights a day, serving 140 cities across the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. It is considered to be the world's largest regional airline system. Like its partner, American Airlines, American Eagle is an affiliate member of the oneworld alliance. American Eagle also has a codesharing agreement with Northwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Continental Airlines. The name was also used between April 1980 and April 1981 by an unrelated short lived start up airline which flew charters while it awaited the graning of routes. The authority to fly several routes was given, but the airline suspended operations and filed bankrupcy before any scheduled operations were flown. [1]
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Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Incidents and accidents
- 3 Hubs
- 4 Destinations
- 5 Fleet
- 6 See also
- 7 Notes
- 8 External links
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History
American Eagle was conceived in the mid-1980s as a collection of regional carriers with contracts to carry the American Eagle brand name and started operations on 1 November 1984. The first of these was Command Airways (or Command Airlines) and was based at Dutchess County Airport in Wappinger, New York. The operation there included a maintenance facility. Other carriers included Avair, Simmons Airlines, Wings West Airlines, Metro airlines and Chaparral Airlines. In the mid-1990s, these carriers were purchased by American and combined to form Flagship Airlines dba American Eagle. Executive Air was not merged into American Eagle, and it still provides American Eagle service by contract, although it is wholly owned by American Eagle. American Eagle launched its first jet service in May 1998 from Chicago to Cleveland, Cincinnati and Milwaukee using Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft. Business Express was acquired in March 1999 and integrated in December 2000.
American Eagle's flights from Los Angeles International Airport are codeshared by Continental Airlines, and are under the Delta Connection name for Delta Air Lines.
Incidents and accidents
In 1988, an American Eagle Metroliner crashed in Indiana killing all 12 people onboard.
The airline suffered two fatal crashes during 1994. In October American Eagle Flight 4184, an ATR-72 aircraft crashed during a snowstorm near Roselawn, Indiana, killing all 68 people aboard. In December a Jetstream 32 aircraft crashed while landing at Raleigh, North Carolina, killing 15 people.
Following the crash near Roselawn, longstanding problems with the ATR aircraft operating in some icing conditions were revealed by a Stephen Fredrick, a whistleblower later fired by the airline. Unheeded Warning - The Inside Story of American Eagle Flight 4184 was published in July, 1996 by McGraw-Hill.
On May 9th, 2004, an ATR-72 crashed while landing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. No passegers were killed but at least 13 passengers and crew suffered serious injuries.
Hubs
American Eagle operates from hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago-O'Hare, Miami, Los Angeles, New York LaGuardia, Boston-Logan, Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport, San Juan Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (Executive Air) and San Jose. (American's hub, St. Louis, is also served by AmericanConnection in addition to American Airlines and American Eagle.)
American Eagle also operates a maintenance facility at Abilene Regional Airport in Abilene, Texas.
Destinations
- Further information: American Eagle destinations
Fleet
American Eagle Embraer ERJ 140
The American Eagle Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2006):
- 25 Bombardier CRJ 700 701ER
- 39 Embraer ERJ-135 135-LR
- 59 Embraer ERJ-140 140-LR
- 108 Embraer ERJ-145 150-LR (further 8 on order)
- 28 Saab 340B (American Eagle is phasing this aircraft out of its fleet; Abilene Regional Airport serves as the storage facility for the retired aircraft)
- 36 ATR 72-Super ATR-210, under the name of Executive Air (for more information on Executive Air, see below.)
- Also includes a single ATR-42 and 12 ATR 72-Super ATR-500 in addition to the 36 aircraft in the Executive Air fleet.
In March 2006, the average age of American Eagle fleet is 5.5 years.
Executive Air, which uses American Eagle's livery but is not part of American Eagle Airlines, uses ATR 72 aircraft.
See also
Notes
- ^ Tom W Norwood (1996). “1980”, Deregulation Knockouts Round One. Airways. ISBN 0-9653993-0-3.
External links
- American Eagle page at American Airlines website
- American Eagle Airlines Embraer Fleet Age
- American Eagle Airlines Embraer Fleet Detail
- American Eagle Airlines Passenger Opinions
