{"id":364482,"date":"2026-02-08T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/100-years-on-how-american-airlines-story-begin\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:00:21","slug":"100-years-on-how-did-american-airlines-story-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=364482","title":{"rendered":"100 Years On: How Did American Airlines&#8217; Story Begin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few carriers are truly as iconic to passengers as Fort Worth-headquartered <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span>, an airline that stands as the world&#8217;s largest in terms of a number of metrics related to flights and passengers carried. The airline, in its current form, has existed for around 100 years, and the company&#8217;s operational model has changed drastically throughout this time. From the dawn of the age of aviation to becoming a key power player during the jet age, American Airlines has only continued to grow over the years into the behemoth that it is today. The carrier has been a symbol of American freedom throughout times of global turmoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has a storied legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,1003,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364483,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364482\/revisions\/364483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}