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On April 15, 1926, Charles Lindbergh flew the first American Airlines flight – carrying U.S. mail from St. Louis, Missouri, to Chicago, Illinois. After 8 years of mail routes, the airline began to form into what it is today. American founder C.R. Smith worked with Donald Douglas to create the DC-3; a plane that changed the entire airline industry, switching revenue sources from mail to passengers.
American is the first airline to fly the DC-3 in commercial service from New York to Chicago
All American Aviation, later US Airways, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
American begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
American begins operating service for the first time with American Overseas Airlines
American establishes its maintenance and engineering base in Tulsa, Oklahoma
American pioneers nonstop transcontinental service across the U.S. with the Douglas DC-7
American opens the world’s first special facility for flight attendant training, the American Airlines Stewardess College, in Dallas/Fort Worth
American introduces the Lockheed Electra, the first U.S.-designed turboprop plane
American hires Dave Harris, the first African-American pilot for a commercial airline
American merges with Trans Caribbean Airways, gaining Caribbean routes
American introduces AAdvantage®, the first airline loyalty program
America West commences operations in Tempe, Arizona
American introduces the American Eagle system
American announces plans to expand its Latin American service with routes from Eastern Airlines
American celebrates its 1 billionth customer
All American flights become nonsmoking
American announces plans to acquire Trans World Airlines assets
American tragically loses 23 people, including pilots, flight attendants and family members, in the events surrounding Flights 11 and 77
US Airways merges with America West
American introduces mobile boarding passes
AMR Corporation and US Airways Group officially form the American Airlines Group
American Airlines Group is added to the S&P 500 index
American flies its first revenue flight with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner
American's Robert W. Baker Integrated Operations Center opens in Fort Worth
US Airways flies its last flight, Flight 1939
American and US Airways begin operating as one airline with a Single Passenger Service System
American celebrates its 90th birthday
Air Transport World names American its 2017 Airline of the Year
American retires the last of its MD-80 aircraft after 36 years as the workhorse of the airline's fleet
