American Airlines

Note: For the arenas named after this company, see American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas), or American Airlines Arena (Miami, Florida).

Pop culture

• In the 1960s, Mattel released a series of American Airlines stewardess Barbie dolls.
• An American Airlines Space Freighter, the Valley Forge, was the setting for the 1971 science fiction movie Silent Running, starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull.
• AA was featured prominently in the first two Home Alone movies.
• In the early 1990s, singer Janet Jackson made a commercial for AA.
• AA has been a long-time promotional sponsor of The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from AA's hub city of Chicago.
• AA is one of the few companies to have purchased naming rights for two sporting venues: the American Airlines Arena in Miami and the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
• AA was the first airline to offer Bloody Mary cocktails on its aircraft. The airline's contract with the garage-based makers of "Mr. and Mrs. T" mix eventually exhausted the small factory's supply and forced Mr. and Mrs. T to sell itself to Del Monte.