Company Watch - American Airlines.For more company news, data and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/professional.htm Jul 10, 2006 American signs contract with Galileo; talks with Sabre stalled. American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the has signed a five-year, full-content agreement with Galileo International. American now has content agreements with Galileo, Worldspan, G2 SwitchWorks and Farelogix, but has yet to announce pacts with Sabre and Amadeus. Jul 6, 2006 American Airlines reported Wednesday that it flew flat traffic (actually down, but by only one-tenth of 1 percent) on capacity down 3.1 percent. American June traffic at a glance: Revenue passenger miles Revenue passenger miles (RPMs) is a measure of a passenger traffic for an airline flight, bus, or train calculated by multiplying the total number of revenue-paying passengers aboard the vehicle by the distance traveled measured in miles. : 12.66 billion. Year before: 12.67 billion. Available seat miles Available seat miles (ASM) is a measure of an airline flight's passenger carrying capacity. It is equal to the number of seats available multiplied by the number of miles flown. This measures an airlines capacity for transporting passengers. : 14.82 billion. Year before: 15.29 billion. Load factor: 85.4 percent. Year before: 82.8 percent. On Asia-Pacific routes, American flew 649.8 million RPMs on 729.3 million ASMs to produce a regional load factor of 88.9 percent. Jul 6, 2006 American Airlines to Operate All-Boeing 777s Between Miami / New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. . American Airlines will fly all Boeing 777 aircraft to Buenos Aires from both Miami and New York starting this fall, adding more passenger and cargo capacity to one of South America's most dynamic cities. Jul 5, 2006 |
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