美国航空的历史

1926 年 4 月 15 日，美国航空 (American Airlines) 的首个定期航班由一架 DH-4 双翼飞机载运一包美国邮件，从芝加哥飞往密苏里州圣路易斯。

Robertson Aircraft Corporation and more than 80 other small airline companies were consolidated in 1929 and 1930 into the Aviation Corporation, which eventually formed American Airways, the immediate forerunner of today’s American.

1930s

1933:American began flying the 18-passenger Curtiss Condor. Flight attendants — then called stewardesses — made their first appearance on an American aircraft

1934:American Airways was reorganized and became American Airlines, Inc.

1936:American is the first airline to fly the Douglas DC-3 in commercial service between New York and Chicago

1937:American carries its one millionth passenger

1939:All American Aviation — later US Airways — is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

June 1939:American begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

1940s

1942:American enters the airline catering business with a subsidiary called Sky Chefs to provide food service for its passengers as well as those flying other airlines

1944 年 10 月：美国航空从纽约拉瓜迪亚机场运营首个定期航空货运航班，标志着世界上第一个定期航空货运服务

1945:American begins operating trans-Atlantic service for the first time with American Overseas Airlines

1946:American establishes its maintenance and engineering base in Tulsa, Oklahoma

1947:American introduces the fully pressurized Douglas DC-6, offering sleeper flights between New York and Los Angeles

1950s

1952:American introduces the Magnetronic Reservisor to keep track of seats available on flights

1953:American pioneers nonstop transcontinental service across the U.S. with the Douglas DC-7

1955:American opens its operation at ORD

1957:American opens the world’s first special facility for flight attendant training — the American Airlines Stewardess College — in Fort Worth, Texas

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