American Eagle Airlines

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American Eagle
IATA MQ	ICAO EGF	Callsign Eagle Flight
Founded		1984
Hubs		Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport O'Hare International Airport Miami International Airport Los Angeles International Airport LaGuardia Airport Logan International Airport Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport Raleigh-Durham International Airport
Frequent flyer program		AAdvantage (American Airlines) OnePass (Continental Airlines) (California Routes Only) SkyMiles (Delta Air Lines) (California Routes Only) WorldPerks (Northwest Airlines) (California Routes Only)
Member lounge		Admirals Club
Alliance		Oneworld
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. It is a regional airline partner of American Airlines (both wholly owned by AMR Corporation), operating over 1,700 flights a day, serving 135 cities across the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. It is considered to be the world's largest regional airline system.^[1]

Like its partner, American Airlines, American Eagle is an affiliate member of the Oneworld alliance. American Eagle also has a code sharing 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 granting of routes. The authority to fly several routes was given, but the airline suspended operations and filed bankruptcy before any scheduled operations were flown.^[2]

American Eagle Airlines is not to be confused with American Eagle Outfitters (who manufactures T-shirts with the "American Eagle" name on them)

Contents 1 History 2 Incidents and accidents 3 Hubs 4 Destinations 5 Fleet 6 See also 7 External links 8 References

[edit] 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 Air Virginia, Simmons Airlines, Wings West Airlines, Metro Airlines and Chaparral Airlines. In the late 1980s, these carriers were purchased by AMR Corporation and combined to form American Eagle Airlines. 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.^{[citation needed]}

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. It has 10,054 employees.^[1]

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.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

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• 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) in the book "Unheeded Warning - The Inside Story of American Eagle Flight 4184". The book was published in July, 1996 by McGraw-Hill. American Eagle has since phased out service using ATR aircraft in cold-weather areas, replacing the aircraft with regional jets. However, ATR-72 aircraft are still used for Caribbean operations from Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, where weather is less of an issue.

• On May 9, 2004 American Eagle Flight 5401 crash-landed in San Juan during a botched go-around. Seventeen people were injured, but there were no fatalities.

[edit] Hubs

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American Eagle operates from hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago-O'Hare, Miami, Los Angeles, New York-LaGuardia, Boston, Raleigh-Durham and San Juan. American Airlines' hub in St. Louis is also served by AmericanConnection in addition to American Eagle.

American Eagle also operates maintenance facilities at Abilene Regional Airport in Abilene, Texas, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Bentonville, Arkansas, Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, and Sawyer International Airport in Marquette, Michigan.

[edit] Destinations

Further information: American Eagle destinations

[edit] Fleet

The American Eagle Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of October 2006^{[citation needed]}:

American Eagle Fleet

Type	Fleet	Passengers (Economy)	Routes	Notes
Bombardier CRJ 700	25	70	Operated from Chicago O'Hare and Dallas/Ft. Worth on high-density routes
Embraer ERJ-135	40	37	Throughout American Eagle system
Embraer ERJ-140	59	44	Throughout American Eagle system
Embraer ERJ-145	118	50	Throughout American Eagle system
Saab 340B	28*	34	Primarily operates intra-state routes from Dallas/Ft. Worth and Los Angeles	*30-35 Saabs being added to the fleet by 2008 to offset the 28 being returned to Saab Leasing.
ATR 72-Super ATR-210	36	64	Operates Florida and Caribbean routes from Miami and San Juan	Operates Under Executive Air
ATR 72-Super ATR-500	12		Operates Florida and Caribbean routes from Miami and San Juan	Operates Under Executive Air

As of October 2006, the average age of American Eagle fleet is 5.7 years.^[3]

Executive Air, which has a separate operating certificate from American Eagle Airlines, uses ATR 72 aircraft based in San Juan (SJU) and Miami (MIA).

[edit] See also

• AAdvantage

[edit] External links

• American Eagle page at American Airlines website
• American Eagle Airlines Embraer Fleet Detail

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b} Flight International 27 March 2007
2. ^ Tom W Norwood (1996). "1980", Deregulation Knockouts, Round One. Airways. ISBN 0-9653993-0-3. 
3. ^ American Eagle Airlines Embraer Fleet Age