AMR Corporation, through its subsidiaries, operates in the airline industry in the United States. The company, through its principal subsidiary, American Airlines, Inc., provides scheduled jet service to approximately 150 destinations throughout North America, the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. American Airlines also operates as a scheduled air freight carrier, providing a range of freight and mail services to shippers. AMR Corporation, through its subsidiary, AMR Eagle Holding Corporation, owns and operates two regional airlines, providing connecting service from nine of American's high-traffic cities to smaller markets throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean under the name American Eagle. The company serves 250 cities in 40 countries with approximately 3,400 daily flights. As of December 31, 2008, AMR Corporation owned and leased aircrafts in operation included 626 American Airlines Aircrafts and 266 AMR Eagle Aircrafts. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

LIAT would like for you to take a Dash through tropical paradise. With a fleet of about 20 Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop aircraft, the carrier transports passengers to more than 20 destinations in the Caribbean. The company expanded by buying key operating assets of former rival Caribbean Star, including additional Dash 8s. Before the acquisition was completed in 2007, LIAT and Caribbean Star had formed a commercial alliance that integrated many of their operations. Among LIAT's major shareholders are the governments of several Caribbean nations, including Antigua, Barbados, the Grenadines, and St. Vincent. LIAT took to the skies in 1956.

VT Group is a leading defence and support services company, providing engineering and other support services to governments and large organisations around the world. Primarily based in the UK and US, we employ over 12,000 people. Over the past five years we have doubled in size, and now have a turnover of £1.05 billion. VT is involved in a wide range of market sectors, including aviation, broadcast, defence, energy, education and training. We provide services from designing, acquiring and then operating and maintaining facilities and assets, through to providing support and training – to everyone from schoolchildren to teachers, apprentices and pilots.

United Space Alliance (USA) is a space-race heavyweight (each of the Space Shuttles -- Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour -- weighs 173,000 pounds). A joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, USA was established in 1996 to consolidate NASA's various Space Shuttle contracts under a single entity. As prime contractor, the company is involved in mission operations, astronaut and flight controller training, flight software development, Shuttle payload integration, and vehicle processing, launch, and recovery operations. USA also provides training and operations planning for the International Space Station. Its main operations are at the Johnson Space Center (Texas) and Kennedy Space Center (Florida).

EgyptAir company is, of course, the national airline of Egypt. Serving nearly 70 destinations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, the carrier also flies throughout the Middle East and to several domestic locations. It operates a fleet of about 40 aircraft, consisting mostly of Airbus jets. EgyptAir owns a cargo carrier, a ground handling services company, an aircraft maintenance company, and a hospital. It also owns stakes in three regional carriers -- Air Cairo, Air Sinai, and EgyptAir Express. Founded in 1932, the airline is owned by the Egyptian government; it announced but later canceled plans to sell 20% of the company to employees and the public.

FedEx Corporation provides transportation, e-commerce, and business services in the United States and internationally. It operates in four segments: FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, and FedEx Services. The FedEx Express segment offers various shipping services for the delivery of packages and freight. This segment also provides international trade services specializing in customs brokerage, and ocean and air cargo distribution; customs clearance services, as well as global trade data, an information tool that allows customers to track and manage imports; and international trade advisory services, including assistance with the customs-trade partnership against terrorism program, as well as publishes customs duty and tax information in various customs areas. The FedEx Ground segment provides business and residential ground package delivery services. It primarily serves customers in the small-package market in North America.The FedEx Freight segment offers less-than-truckload freight services, as well as shipment carrier services. As of May 31, 2009, this segment operated approximately 59,000 vehicles and trailers from a network of 480 service centers. The FedEx Services segment provides sales, marketing, information technology support, and customer service support; document solutions and business services, as well as provides access to copying and digital printing, professional finishing, document creation, signs and graphics, direct mail, Web-based printing, Internet access, computer rentals, videoconferencing, and a range of day-definite ground shipping and time-definite global express shipping services; and supply chain solutions, including critical inventory logistics, transportation management, fulfillment, and fleet services. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

The company designs and builds combat and amphibian aircraft that have, for over 70 years, been delivered to more than 37 countries. While military aircraft account for about three-quarters of sales, IRKUT also makes unmanned aerial vehicles, combat navigation and targeting systems, aircraft components, and civil airplanes. The company has partnered with EADS for help in adapting operations to global industry standards. As part of the partnership, IRKUT and EADS are collaborating on a contract to make components for Airbus. IRKUT management owns more than half of the company.

Whether its passengers call it Belgium's largest airline in French, German, or Dutch, Brussels Airlines flies to about 70 cities, mainly in Europe and Africa. The carrier operates a fleet of about 50 aircraft, including BAE regional jets and larger Airbus and Boeing models. The carrier also hauls cargo and provides charter services. SN Airholding, a consortium of Belgian companies, owns the airline, which it intends to sell to German carrier Lufthansa. Brussels Airlines was invited in late 2008 to join the Star Alliance, a global marketing and code-sharing group led by Lufthansa and UAL's United Airlines. (Code-sharing enables airlines to sell tickets on one another's flights and thus extend their networks.)

Take the case of PSA Airlines, whose name links to its past, short-lived operations in the Pacific Southwest. The regional carrier, now a US Airways Group subsidiary and part of the US Airways Express network, serves about 65 eastern locations such as Charlotte, North Carolina; Dayton, Ohio; and Knoxville, Tennessee. It connects smaller markets with US Airways hubs like Charlotte and Philadelphia. PSA maintains a fleet of about 50 Canadair regional jets (CRGs) made by Bombardier. Overall, the US Airways Express carriers, including fellow subsidiary Piedmont Airlines and several independent lines, operate about 330 aircraft, comprising turboprops as well as CRGs.

For this company, Australia and the Asia/Pacific remain Virgin territory for low-fare airlines. Virgin Blue Holdings' main subsidiary, Virgin Blue Airlines, serves more than 20 cities in Australia, where it is #2 behind Qantas. Virgin Blue carriers include Pacific Blue, which serves New Zealand, and Polynesian Blue, which flies to several Pacific islands. In February 2009 Virgin Blue launched V Australia, an airline flying between Australia and the US West Coast. Overall, Virgin Blue operates a fleet of about 75 Boeing 737s and Embraer E-Jets and serves some 30 destinations. The company also sells tour packages and offers cargo services. Virgin Blue is an affiliate of UK-based Virgin Group.

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