American Airlines Group Inc. AAL

What this company does

American Airlines Group operates a network air carrier that provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo through hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, D.C., and through partner gateways including London, Doha, Madrid, Seattle/Tacoma, Sydney and Tokyo. It provides service to over 350 destinations around the world, and approximately 224 million passengers boarded its flights in 2025. Its mainline fleet comprised 1,013 aircraft at the end of that year, with a further 567 regional aircraft operated by its wholly-owned regional airline subsidiaries and by third-party regional carriers. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 139,100 active full-time equivalent employees, approximately 86% of whom were represented by labor unions. Its principal wholly-owned subsidiaries are American Airlines, Inc., Envoy Aviation Group Inc., PSA Airlines, Inc. and Piedmont Airlines, Inc. The regional carriers that fly under the American Eagle brand name include the wholly-owned Envoy Air Inc., PSA and Piedmont, along with third-party carriers such as Republic Airways Inc. and SkyWest Airlines, Inc. Its cargo division carries freight and mail, serving over 20,000 unique origin and destination pairs and transporting approximately 1.0 billion pounds of freight and mail across the network during the year.

Written from the business description in American Airlines Group Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 18 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.