launc date – march 2 1925
country – usa
history – has merged with several airlines including north west north east. western and a lot of pan am
hubs – atlanta (main base), jfk, seattle, salt lake city, detroit, miniapilous, amsterdam (formerly). seoul (formerly) boston, clinciatti (formerly). narita (formerly). austin and raliegh focus city. la
destinaitnos – a long time where the us carrier flew to africa they also acquired a big asian network from northwest but thats mostly stoppped they launched australia in 2009 to sydney now serve brisbane and melbounre maybe.
route examples – la to sydney salt lake to seattle, atlanta to la, salt lake to rapid city, miniapileous to washington.
alliance – sky team
fleet – a220, a319, a320, a321 (ex northwest), a330 including new 900 series. a350. 717, 737, 757, 767, formerly 747, dc-9 (until 2014 wow), tristar (till 2001), covair 880,
accidents – flight 191 (1985) due to windshear 1141 (1983) pilot error, are the main ones.
personal experience – flew them from seattle to rapid city via salt lake in 2008 was ok but don’t remeber much was md-90 to salt lake and then crj200 (owned by sky west on the 2nd leg).
next time – cathay pacific.
Harrison’s world 