American Airlines Group said Monday it has combined the cargo divisions of American Airlines and US Airways under a single air waybill, making that area the first operational unit to be combined following the US Airways-American merger of December 2013.
“Today is the culmination of a lot of hard work by our cargo employees,” American Airlines Cargo president Jim Butler said. ”We have brought together the expertise and solutions that customers have come to rely on and the teams that are focused on restoring American Airlines as the greatest airline in the world. As of today, all booking channels are open and cargo customers have access to flights across the combined network of the world’s largest airline.”
AAG said it “successfully combined 154 facilities and harmonized products” to create a single cargo operation, which has more than $800 million in annual revenue.
In 2015, American hopes to get a single operating certificate for both AA and US Airways in the spring, combine the two carriers’ frequent-flier programs in the middle third of the year and put both airlines under a single reservations system in the latter part of 2015.