American Eagle (airline)

Envoy Air's CRJ 700 in the new livery

CRJ 700 of American Eagle Airlines in the livery until 2013 (2011)

Under the brand name American Eagle (English for American Eagle ) since 1984 leading American regional airlines feeder flights for American Airlines by.

The American Eagle -Fluggesellschaften include up to Envoy Air , PSA Airlines and Piedmont Airlines not to American Airlines Group , but are independent airlines that carry passengers only on behalf of American Airlines. With the merger of American Airlines with US Airways in 2013, the feeder airlines formerly operating as US Airways Express were added to the American Eagle network. Before the merger, Envoy belonged to American Airlines, PSA and Piedmont belonged to US Airways. The planes are painted in the colors and with the company logo of American, a stylized eagle , the heraldic animal of the USA . In 2013 the American logo was renewed.

history

Foundation and first years

The first flight under the name American Eagle was operated on November 1, 1984 by Metroflight Airlines , a subsidiary of Metro Airlines (formerly Houston Metro Airlines ), based in Houston for American Airlines. The flight with a Convair CV-580 , which was previously used by Frontier Airlines , led from Fayetteville (Arkansas) to Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport .

Over the years, the American Eagle network was expanded to include additional independent airlines. Other airlines flying in American Eagle livery included Executive Airlines , Command Airways , Air Virginia , Simmons Airlines , Chaparral Airlines, and Wings West Airlines .

American Eagle Airlines is founded

From 1987 American Airlines began to buy up the regional airlines and to merge . In 1991 there were four of these bought-out airlines: Simmons Airlines , Executive Airlines , Flagship Airlines, and Wings West Airlines .

On May 15, 1998 American Airlines merged the regional airlines Wings West Airlines and Flagship Airlines with Simmons Airlines and created the subsidiary American Eagle Airlines (renamed Envoy in 2014 ). The newly created airline American Eagle Airlines took over the IATA code MQ from Simmons Airlines. For the next 14 years only the two subsidiaries American Eagle Airlines and Executive Airlines operated flights under the name American Eagle.

AmericanConnection

From 2001 Chautauqua Airlines operated regional flights for American Airlines from Chicago under the name AmericanConnection . Since AmericanConnection was dissolved in 2012, Chautauqua Airlines has been part of the American Eagle network. In 2014 the airline was dissolved by the owner Republic Airways Holdings .

American Airlines bankruptcy

During the insolvency of American Airlines (from 2011 to 2013) it was decided that regional flights should again be operated increasingly by independent airlines and only on behalf of American Airlines. As of 2011, there were considerations to sell the subsidiary American Eagle Airlines . Through the merger of American Airlines with US Airways in 2013, former feeder airlines for US Airways were added to the American Eagle group. In 2014 American Airlines announced that it would rename its subsidiary American Eagle Airlines as part of the American Eagle network to Envoy . Like the other feeder airlines, Envoy will operate the flights under the American Eagle umbrella brand . In late 2014 and early 2015, two Trans States Holdings airlines ( Trans State Airlines and Compass Airlines ) joined American Airlines' American Eagle network. In 2019, American did not renew its contracts with ExpressJet and Trans States Airlines.

Members

As of 2015, the following airlines belong to the American Eagle fleet :

airline	Member since	IATA code	ICAO code	Callsign	Aircraft	number	Seats			Parent company
							F.	Y	Total
Envoy Air	2014 (since 1998 as American Eagle Airlines )	MQ	EGF	Eagle Flight	Bombardier CRJ700 Embraer ERJ-140 Embraer ERJ-145	224	9 0 0	54/56 44 50	63/65 44 50	American Airlines Group
PSA Airlines	2013 (1988; US Airways Express )	JS	JIA	PPE	Bombardier CRJ-900	49	12	64	76	American Airlines Group
Piedmont Airlines	2013 (1987; US Airways Express )	PT	PDT	Piedmont	De Havilland DHC-8-100 De Havilland DHC-8-300	27 11	0 0	50 50	50 50	American Airlines Group
Air Wisconsin	2013 (since 2005 for US Airways Express )	ZW	AWI	Wisconsin	Bombardier CRJ-200	63	0	50	50	Air Wisconsin Airlines Corporation
SkyWest Airlines	2012	OO	SKW	SkyWest	Bombardier CRJ-200	12	0	50	50	SkyWest, Inc.
Republic Airline	2013	YX	RPA	Brickyard	Embraer 175	85	12	64	76	Republic Airways Holdings
Mesa Airlines	2014 (since 1997 for US Airways Express )	YV	ASH	Air shuttle	Bombardier CRJ-900	64	9	70	79	Mesa Air Group

Former partners

• Metroflight Airlines (from 1984 to 1993, operated the first American Eagle flight)
• AVAir, formerly Air Virginia (from 1985 to 1988)
• Simmons Airlines (from 1985 to 1998, incorporated into American Eagle Airlines)
• Executive Airlines (from 1986 to 2013, bought by AMR in 1989)
• Command Airways (from 1986 to 1991)
• Wings West Airlines (from 1986 to 1998, incorporated into American Eagle Airlines)
• National Eagle (from 1988 to 1991, incorporated into American Eagle Airlines)
• Flagship Airlines (from 1991 to 1998, incorporated into American Eagle Airlines)
• Chautauqua Airlines (from 2001 to 2012 as American Connection , dissolved at the end of 2014)
• Trans State Airlines (2018 contract not renewed for 2019, instead flies for United Express )
• ExpressJet (contract 2018 not renewed for 2019, instead flies for United Express)
• Compass Airlines (from 2015 to 2020, dissolved in 2020)

fleet

American Eagle's Bombardier CRJ-700

Embraer 175 of the American Eagle, operated by Republic Airlines

Current fleet

As of May 2020, the American Eagle fleet consists of 609 aircraft with an average age of 11.8 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( First / Main Cabin Extra / Main Cabin )	Average age (As of May 2020)
Bombardier CRJ-700	123			65-76 (6-9 / 8-16 / 40-48)	14.7 years
Bombardier CRJ-900	132			76-79 (9-12 / 11-24 / 40-58)	8.6 years
Embraer ERJ-135	58			44 (- / 3/41)	17.9 years
Embraer ERJ-145	118			50 (- / 3/47)	18.3 years
Embraer ERJ-175	178			76 (12/20/44)	5.9 years
total	609				11.8 years

Former aircraft types

American Eagle has already used the following types of aircraft in the past:

• ATR 42
• ATR 72
• Beechcraft 99
• Bombardier CRJ-200
• BAe Jetstream 31 and 32
• de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter
• CASA 212
• Convair CV-580
• Fairchild Swearingen Metro
• Grumman Gulfstream I (stretched variant G-IC)
• NAMC YS-11
• Short 330
• Short 360
• Saab 340

Incidents

• On October 31, 1994 came ATR 72-200 of Simmons Airlines ( aircraft marks N401AM ) on the way from Indianapolis International Airport , Indiana , to Chicago O'Hare International Airport , Illinois no mats, due to icing of the rear wing, which is by design of the de-icing system descended out of control and crashed. None of the 68 occupants, including 64 passengers and 4 crew members, survived the accident. It was the first total loss and the first accident resulting in death of an ATR 72 (see also American Eagle flight 4184 ) .
• On December 13, 1994, a Jetstream 32 operated by Flagship Airlines on behalf of American Eagle crashed near Morrisville, North Carolina . Previously, shortly before landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport , the pilots had made an unnecessary missed approach because the flight captain had misinterpreted a flashing control lamp in the cockpit. 15 of the 20 people on board died in the accident (see also flagship airlines flight 3379 ) .

Web links

• American Eagle ( memento February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the American Airlines website
• American Eagle Latitudes ( Memento from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (American Eagle's on-board magazine)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ American Airlines Group Overview ( Memento from April 24, 2014 on WebCite ), aa.com, April 2014
2. ^ American Eagle Airlines , accessed August 24, 2015
3. ^ ^{A b c} American Eagle Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. May 14, 2020, accessed on May 15, 2020 . 
4. ^ Planes - Travel information - American Airlines. In: aa.com. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (English). 
5. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1984–2007.
6. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008-2013.
7. ↑ accident report ATR 72 N401AM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 14 April 2020th