American Airlines, Inc. - $1,000 Specimen Bond
Inv# SE3496 Specimen Bond
$1,000 Specimen Bond printed by Security-Columbian Banknote Company. American Airlines, Inc. (AA or AAL) is a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, w/in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is the world's largest airline when measured by fleet size, scheduled passengers carried, & revenue passenger mile. American, together w/ its regional partners, operates an extensive international & domestic network w/ almost 6,800 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries. American Airlines is a founding member of the Oneworld alliance, the third-largest airline alliance in the world. Regional service is operated by independent & subsidiary carriers under the brand name American Eagle.
American Airlines & American Eagle operate out of 10 hubs, w/ Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) being its largest. The airline handles more than 200 million passengers annually w/ an average of more than 500,000 passengers daily. As of 2019, the company employs nearly 130,000 people. American Airlines operates its primary & the largest maintenance & repair operations (MRO) base in Tulsa in addition to the maintenance locations at its hubs. American Airlines was started in 1930 via a union of more than eighty small airlines.
The two organizations from which American Airlines was originated were Robertson Aircraft Corporation & Colonial Air Transport. The former was first created in Missouri in 1921, w/ both being merged in 1929 into holding company The Aviation Corporation. This, in turn, was made in 1930 into an operating company & rebranded as American Airways. In 1934, when new laws & attrition of mail contracts forced many airlines to reorganize, the corporation redid its routes into a connected system & was renamed American Airlines. Between 1970 & 2000, the company grew into being an international carrier, purchasing Trans World Airlines in 2001. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines
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