American Airlines Logo — American Airlines, Inc. better known as American or AA is an airline based in the United States . It is the largest airline in the world in kilometers, the fifth in number of aircraft operated and the largest in terms of total revenues from operations . In 2010 carried 105,163,576 passengers, the third largest worldwide after Delta Air Lines and United Airlines . The airline is based in Fort Worth , Texas , a city adjacent to Dallas and headquarters from Dallas-Fort Worth , one of the largest worldwide. It operates scheduled flights throughout the United States as well as flights to Canada, Latin America, Europe, Caribbean, Japan, China and India. President and CEO of the company is Tom Horton . Founding member of the global alliance Oneworld .
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In 2010 was ranked number 120 on the list Fortune 500 . It is a subsidiary of AMR Corporation .American Airways was formed as a conglomeration of 82 small airlines through reorganizations and acquisitions. Initially, American Airways was a common trademark used by a series of independent airlines. These included Southern Air Transport in Texas, Southern Air Fast Express (SAFE) in the western U.S., Universal Aviation the Midwest (which operated a transcontinental air route and train in 1929), Thompson Aeronautical Services (which operated a route Detroit-Cleveland in 1929) and Colonial Air Transport in the Northeast. More