Envoy (airline)
Envoy until January 14, 2014 American Eagle Airlines is an American regional airline based in Fort Worth and a subsidiary of American Airlines.
Americans regional feeder flights in the U.S. are conducted by various smaller airlines, most of which do not belong to American Airlines Group, under the brand name American Eagle. By 2014 one of these smaller airlines, among other things, its subsidiary American Eagle Airlines, founded in 1998 and within the Group for. With the change of name of subsidiary in Envoy and maintaining the brand name American Eagle Envoy will eventually operate flights under the name American Eagle operated by Enovy (Eng. ... performed by Envoy ).
History
American Eagle Airlines was created in 1998 from the merger of several small regional airlines, the American had bought over the years. These formerly independent regional airlines had carried out shuttle flights since 1984 under the name American Eagle for American. From 2011, during the bankruptcy of American, were now dropped plans to make the AMR Corporation had targeted a sale of American Eagle Airlines. On January 14, 2014 American Eagle Airlines has changed its name to envoy while simultaneously getting a new name, a new logo and a new brand image. Envoy, as well as American Eagle Airlines previously, according to the number of aircraft by far the largest regional airline in the American Eagle network.
Destinations
Envoy performs regional and commuter flights to and between many smaller airports such as the University of Illinois Willard Airport and the major hubs Chicago O'Hare and Dallas - Fort Worth within the American Eagle network for American Airlines.
Fleet
As of January 2014, the fleet of 224 aircraft from Envoy of:
Incidents
- On 31 October 1994 American Eagle Airlines Flight 4184 fell on the way from Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana to Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Illinois, due to icing of the rear wing, where their design were no mats of the de-icing system, in descent out of control and crashed. None of the 68 occupants, including 64 passengers and four crew members survived the accident. It was the first crash of an ATR 72-200.