The History & Development Of The American Airlines Logo

Would it be fair to say that the old cliché "Is it a bird or is it a plane?" hasn't entirely left our vocabulary, not simply because the Wright brothers devised the first mechanical birds, but because airlines are also insistent on using birds in their logo? American Airlines, one of the world's largest carriers, handling more than 500,000 passengers a day and 200 million annually, has shed the skin of its initial logo, but not in its entirety.