05.10.08
Air Canada and American Airlines
Can you imagine life in the 12th century, for example? How did people get from France to Chine? Just think how much time it took to cover 10,000 kilometers. What about today?
The first airline ever was started in Germany in 1909. Americans (Rufus Porter and Frederick Marriott) made first attempts to start airlines in the mid-19th century. They focused on the New York-California route. Those attempts could have been successful but for such mishaps as the aircraft being ripped apart by spectators and the aircraft catching fire. Tony Jannus headed the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the United States on 1 January, 1914 for the St. Petersburg-routes. During the early 1920s, passenger service was sporadic. Most airlines at the time focused on carrying bags of mail. In 1925, however, the Ford Motor Company started the Stout Aircraft Company and began the construction of the all-metal Ford Trimotor. It became the first successful American airliner. The airliner had a 12-passenger capacity. It made passenger service potentially profitable. Air service was seen as a supplement to rail service in the American transportation network. Later on, airline companies kept on pumping up in North America.
The most famous and the oldest ones are American Airlines and Air Canada.
American Airlines. American Airlines, Inc. (AA) is a US-based airline company. It is the largest airline in the world in terms of total passengers-miles transported and the passenger fleet size.
American Airlines was incorporated in 1930 as American Airways. At the present time, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the AMR Corporation. AA’s corporate headquarters is based in Fort Worth, Texas. The company operates scheduled flights across the United States, also numerous flights to Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, Western Europe, China, Japan, and India. American Airlines developed out of about 82 small airlines through a number of reorganizations and corporate acquisitions and. At the beginning, the name American Airways was used by a number of independent air carriers as a common brand. These companies included Southern Air Transport (Texas), Universal Aviation (the Midwest), Southern Air Fast Express (the western US), and Colonial Air Transport (the Northeast).
Air Canada. Almost two decades later, in 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada’s largest airline and flag carrier - Air Canada was founded. The corporate headquarters of the company is located in Montreal, Quebec. Air Canada provides scheduled and charter air transportations for passengers and cargo to more than 240 destinations. The company also provides vacation packages to more than 90 destinations. Air Canada is the 11th largest passenger airline in the world in terms of fleet size. The airline is a wholly owned subsidiary of ACE Aviation Holdings. Air Canada is a founding member of Star Alliance in 1997 (an alliance of 20 member airlines).