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The 1952 Magnetronic Reservisor on display at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum. Starting in 1946, American Airlines developed a number of automated airline booking systems known as Reservisor. Although somewhat successful, American's unhappiness with the Reservisor systems led them to develop the computerized Sabre system used to this day.
Something much more highly automated was needed if American Airlines was going to enter the jet age, booking many times more seats. [3]: p.100 During the testing phase of the Reservisor a high-ranking IBM salesman, Blair Smith, was flying on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles back to IBM in New York City in 1953. [4]
An American Airlines regional jet went down in the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after colliding with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on ...
A typical reconfirmation rule is: for each flight (or more precisely, a "leg" [1]) within the trip, the traveller must explicitly re-notify ("reconfirm") to the airline, [3] by telephone or at the airlines' counter, [4] that the traveller still intends to take the reserved flight. The call must be done within a determined range of time in ...
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Federal Aviation Administration reported that American Airlines requested a “ground stop” for all flights which was lifted on Dec. 24, at 8 a.m. ET
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American Airlines ordered 25 DC-10s in its first order. [16] [17] The DC-10 made its first flight on August 29, 1970, [18] and received its type certificate from the FAA on July 29, 1971. [19] On August 5, 1971, the DC-10 entered commercial service with American Airlines on a round-trip flight between Los Angeles and Chicago. [20]