American Airlines (AA) is probably the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers transported and fleet size, and is probably second-largest in the world (behind Air France/KLM) in terms of total operating revenues.
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at the end of 2007, American Airlines had flown around 94 million passengers to their chosen destination. From the UK to the US they have on average 19 flights per day with departures from London Heathrow, Manchester and Dublin. It is also a founding member of the prestigious One World Alliance. Its Frequent Flyer Programme is the largest in the world with approximately 50 million members. American Airlines is a prominent sponsor of the popular Oprah Winfrey Show. Enough said.
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American Airlines operates from 10 European cities to 7 US Gateways and 230 cities beyond.
Alternative View
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"Is American Airlines in any way an ‘Alternative Airline’ ?", "No, but it is big, so surely it must be included in our web site". "Stop calling me Shirley". (With apologies to Airplane 1980.)
NEWS UPDATE: OK Surely/Shirley get this.....AA and the proposed BA/Iberia tie up have announced their intention to form a mega-airline, will it happen? Who knows but if the relevant authorities say’a-yes then it could be chocks away for the formation of the worlds biggest airline (group/partnership, call it what you will...) which will have an even tighter stranglehold on world aviaton....world dominance!!watch our news pages for update.
