American Eagle Airlines

American Eagle Airlines

American Eagle Airlines Inc. (formerly Simmons Airlines), is a certificated air carrier based in Fort Worth, Texas. American Eagle the "marketing brand" however, is used by both Executive Airlines (OW) based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, along with American Eagle Airlines (MQ), in the operation of passenger air services as the regional affiliates of American Airlines, (AA) . All three airlines are wholly owned subsidiaries of AMR Corp. American Airlines also allows codeshares through 15 aircraft with an outside airline, Chautauqua Airlines under contract to provide regional service under the AmericanConnection brand.

Operating over 1,800 flights a day, serving 159 cities across the USA, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, American Eagle is considered to be the world's largest regional airline system.

The American Eagle brand is an affiliate member of the Oneworld airline alliance. Until April 11, 2012 Eagle had a code share agreement with Delta Air Lines on California routes.

The name was also used between April 1980 and April 1981 by an unrelated air charter service that suspended operations and filed bankruptcy before flying any scheduled operations. SkyWest, Inc. announced that through its subsidiaries SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet Airlines, it will operate some flights under the American Eagle name starting November 15, 2012. This development is part of AMR's bankruptcy reorganization. As a result, the company is closing its Los Angeles pilot and flight attendant bases. Affected employees will transfer to other bases, as no furloughs are anticipated at this time.