American Airlines Employees Achieve Fifth Consecutive Customer Experience Rewards Payout

FORT WORTH, Texas, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the fifth consecutive quarter, American Airlines Customer Experience Rewards (a part of American's Annual Incentive Plan) has paid out to employees. Tomorrow, American Airlines will award $11.3 million to approximately 74,000 frontline employees for achieving customer satisfaction goals in the first quarter 2010.

American employees are making great strides to deliver on the customer experience plan. In 2009, American paid out more than $45 million in Customer Experience Rewards. The incentive plan rewards employees with up to $100 per month for meeting or exceeding customer-satisfaction and on-time performance goals. Delivering improved customer service and dependability supports American's FlightPlan 2020 tenet, "Earn Customer Loyalty."

"With each successive quarter of rewarding our employees for achieving positive customer satisfaction results our customers are receiving an ever improving travel experience," said Bob Reding, American's Executive Vice President – Operations. "The American Airlines team understands that when we deliver a great customer experience and earn our customers' loyalty, they will see direct financial dividends."

About American Airlines

American Airlines, American Eagle and AmericanConnection® serve 250 cities in 40 countries with, on average, more than 3,400 daily flights. The combined network fleet numbers more than 900 aircraft. American's award-winning Web site, AA.com®, provides users with easy access to check and book fares, plus personalized news, information and travel offers. American Airlines is a founding member of the oneworld® Alliance, which brings together some of the best and biggest names in the airline business, enabling them to offer their customers more services and benefits than any airline can provide on its own. Together, its members serve nearly 700 destinations in more than 130 countries and territories. American Airlines, Inc. and American Eagle Airlines, Inc. are subsidiaries of AMR Corporation. AmericanAirlines, American Eagle, AmericanConnection, AA.com, We know why you fly and AAdvantage are registered trademarks of American Airlines, Inc. (NYSE: AMR)

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