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American Eagle Airlines is an Holding Company ), operating over 1,800 flights a day, serving 159 cities across the USA, Canada , Mexico and the Caribbean American Eagle Airlines . It is considered to be the world's largest regional airline system.1 Like its partner, American Airlines , American Eagle is an affiliate member of the Oneworld alliance. American Eagle also has a Code Sharing agreement with Northwest Airlines , Delta Air Lines , and Continental Airlines on California routes. The name was also used between April 1980 and April 1981 by an unrelated short lived start up airline which flew charters while it awaited the granting of routes. The authority to fly several routes was given, but the airline suspended operations and filed bankruptcy before any scheduled operations were flown.2 HISTORY American Eagle was conceived in the mid- 1980s as a collection of regional carriers with contracts to carry the American Eagle brand name and started operations on November 1 1984 . American Eagle's first flight was taken by Metroflight Airlines on November 1 , 1984 from Fayetteville, Arkansas to Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas . The first of its operations was for Command Airways (or Command Airlines) and was based at Dutchess County Airport in Wappinger, New York . The operation there included a maintenance facility. Other carriers included Air Virginia , Simmons Airlines , Wings West Airlines , Metro Airlines and Chaparral Airlines . In the late 1980s, these carriers were purchased by AMR Corporation and combined to form American Eagle Airlines. Executive Airlines , Inc. was not merged into American Eagle, and it still provides American Eagle service by contract, although it is wholly owned by American Eagle. American Eagle launched its first jet service in May 1998 from Chicago to Cleveland , Cincinnati and Milwaukee using Embraer ERJ 145 aircraft. Business Express was acquired in March 1999 and integrated in December 2000 . It has 10,054 employees. American Eagle's flights from Los Angeles International Airport are a codeshare with several airlines including Continental Airlines , Northwest Airlines , Hawaiian Airlines Alaska Airlines , Qantas , and are under the Delta Connection name for Delta Air Lines HUBS American Eagle operates from hubs in Boston , Chicago-O'Hare , Dallas-Fort Worth , Los Angeles , Miami , New York-JFK , New York-LaGuardia , Raleigh-Durham and San Juan . American Eagle also operates maintenance facilities at Abilene Regional Airport in Abilene, Texas ; Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport in Bentonville, Arkansas ; Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio ; San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport in San Luis Obispo, CA ; and Sawyer International Airport in Marquette, Michigan . DESTINATIONS FLEET The American Eagle Airlines fleet consists of the following aircraft as of October 2006 : As of October 2006, the average age of American Eagle fleet is 5.7 years. American Eagle Airlines Embraer Fleet Age Executive Air , which has a separate operating certificate from American Eagle Airlines, uses ATR 72 aircraft based in San Juan (SJU) and Miami (MIA). INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS
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