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AMR Corporation was an airline holding company based in Fort Worth, Texas, [2] which was the parent company of American Airlines, American Eagle Airlines, AmericanConnection and Executive Airlines. AMR filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November 2011.
American Airlines Group Inc. is an American publicly traded airline holding company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.It was formed on December 9, 2013, by the merger of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, and US Airways Group, the parent company of US Airways. [5]
AMR responding during Hurricane Sandy in New York City. The company was founded in 1991 through the merger of Regional Ambulance (Alameda and Contra Costa counties, California), Vanguard Ambulance (Santa Clara County, California), and Buck Ambulance (Portland, Oregon). It was subsequently acquired by Laidlaw, [3] and sold to Onex in 2004. [4]
In 2011, due to a downturn in the airline industry, American Airlines' parent company, the AMR Corporation, filed for bankruptcy protection. In 2013, American Airlines merged with US Airways but kept the American Airlines name, as it was the better-recognized brand internationally; the combination of the two airlines resulted in the creation of ...
AMR and US Airways Group completed the merger on December 9, 2013, in the process creating the new holding company American Airlines Group, Inc., which began trading on NASDAQ later that day. [102] An antitrust suit, filed by a group of 40 passengers and travel agents, also sought to block the merger. [103]
Thomas W. Horton (born May 24, 1961) [1] is a partner of Global Infrastructure Partners and is lead director at Walmart Inc. and General Electric Corp. [2]. He was chairman, president, and CEO of AMR Corporation until it merged with US Airways Group to form American Airlines Group, Inc., then became chairman of American Airlines Group, Inc. and American Airlines.
AMR Corporation the parent company of American Airlines, purchased Command Airways in 1988 [6] and renamed it AMR Eagle/Command Airways. This and other AMR affiliate and subsidiary airlines and Flagship Airlines flew under the American Eagle banner before all parties began being referred to more simply as American Eagle in 1991.
AMR Corporation founded Nashville Eagle out of the assets of AVAir and Air Midwest. Flagship Airlines was formed by the merger of Command Airways into Nashville Eagle on June 1, 1991. Flagship operated code sharing flights for American Airlines under the American Eagle brand name. The airline served the East Coast and the Bahamas from hubs at ...