Company Watch - American Airlines.Oct 23, 2006 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 let TV cameras from CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. have a week-long peek at its inner workings, and the result is a two-hour documentary that aired Wednesday night, the Wall Street Journal reports. It's more detailed than the drama you see on A&E's "Airline," which chronicles life at several Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. terminals. And it's part of what appears to be a growing trend-airline as reality show. For carriers, there appears to be a benefit in letting customers see how the sausage gets made. Customers get to appreciate the challenges of coordinating thousands of flights every day and dealing with disruptions, medical emergencies and baggage-belt breakdowns. Southwest has seen an increase in job applications by airing its work. The CNBC special, called "Inside American Airlines: A Week in the Life," covers familiar ground for frequent travelers, from how difficult it is to get a frequent-flier-award seat at the lowest mileage-redemption levels to a history of labor woes. But it has some bits of enlightenment for viewers-an insider's window on an airline scramble to accommodate passengers when bad weather and mechanical problems arise, a sobering look at the lack of cargo-security screening and a lesson in practicality when a mechanic spends his days sharpening For image sharpening, see . Sharpening is the process of creating or refining a sharp edge on a tool or implement. The term has a wide application but can be expressed as the creation of two intersecting planes which produce an edge that is sharp enough to cut through the target old tools back to life to save $1 million annually. Oct 18, 2006 AMR (1) (Adaptive Multi-Rate) A variable rate speech codec selected by the 3GPP for the 3G evolution of the GSM cellphone system (WCDMA). Using the Algebraic CELP (ACELP) compression technology, AMR provides toll quality sound at transmission rates from 4.75 to 12. Corp. posts $114 million third-quarter profit excluding noncash charge Noncash charge A cost, such as depreciation, depletion, and amortization, that does not involve any cash outflow. That is, this is treated as an accounting expense -- not a real expense that demands cash. . American Airlines parent AMR Corp. kicked off the fall financial reporting season yesterday with its announcement that it earned a net profit of $15 million in the third quarter, a reversal from a $153 million loss in the year-ago quarter but a figure reduced substantially by a $99 million noncash charge that reduced the book value of specific outstanding fuel hedge contracts. Oct 19, 2006 American Airlines Parent Posts Quarterly Profit. American Airlines' parent company AMR on Wednesday reported a quarterly profit, reversing a year-ago loss, as the airline flew fuller planes and charged higher fares. Oct 18, 2006 Wright Amendment repeal, initiated with a June compromise struck by the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines and introduced as legislation one month later, became US law Friday when President Bush signed a bill that will eliminate the restrictions in eight years and immediately allow Dallas Love Field This article is about the airport. For the neighborhood, see Love Field, Dallas, Texas (Neighborhood). Dallas Love Field (IATA: DAL, ICAO: KDAL, FAA LID: DAL airlines to sell tickets to any city in the country as long as passengers stop over in one of the Wright states. The bill was sent to the White House following passage by the Senate on Sept. 29. A lawsuit by Love Terminal Partners, which owns the vacant Legend Airlines Legend Airlines was an airline that flew primarily from Love Field, Dallas, Texas, USA for a matter of months, during the year 2000. The airline filed for bankruptcy five years after it was formed as a corporate entity, its initial flights having been substantially delayed by court terminal at Love, is pending. 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