Nash Makayi Nelson Yassin AVI 444 Prof. Godwin November 2, 2016 Company Profile: American Airlines American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL), or commonly referred to as American, is an American major airline. Owned by the American Airlines Group (which was a result of a merger between US Airways and American Airlines), it is the largest airline in the world in terms of fleet size, revenue, and scheduled registered passenger miles flown. It has a number of regional partners with several regional airlines that operate an extensive domestic and international network with an estimated average of over 6,700 flights operated each day. The company is headquartered in the Dallas metropolitan area of Fort Worth with Dallas/Fort Worth being one of the airline’s primary hubs. The airline serves to nearly 350 destinations in over 50 countries worldwide. Some of the popular destinations include flights to Nicaragua, The Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, and many more. American Airlines is a founding member of the Oneworld …show more content…
These hubs are located across the country in cities that include Dallas, Charlotte, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, Phoenix, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York -JFK, and New York-LaGuardia. The primary maintenance base for American is located at Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma in addition to the maintenance bases located at its ten hubs. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport is American Airlines’ largest hub in terms of carrying passengers. The airport handles 5.1 million passengers annually, 140,000 of those daily passengers belonging to American. As of 2015, approximately 113,000 people are employed by American. Through the airline’s parent company, American Airlines Group, American Airlines is publicly traded under the NASDAQ name AAL. It has a market capitalization that is over $40.99 billion as of