aa01188k.htm
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND
EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington,
D. C.
20549
_____________
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
Pursuant
to Section
13 or 15(d) of the
Securities
Exchange
Act of 1934
Date
of earliest
event
reported:
January 15, 2008
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American
Airlines, Inc.
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(Exact
name
of registrant as specified in its
charter)
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Delaware
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1-2691
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13-1502798
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(State
of
Incorporation)
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer
Identification No.)
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4333
Amon
Carter Blvd.
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Fort
Worth,
Texas
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76155
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(Address
of
principal executive offices)
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(Zip
code)
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(817)
963-1234
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(Registrant's
telephone number)
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(Former
name or former address, if changed since last report.)
Check
the
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Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))
Item
5.02.Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors;
Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain
Officers.
AMR
Corporation
(AMR), the parent company of American Airlines, Inc. (American), is filing
herewith a press release issued on January 16, 2008 as Exhibit 99.1, which
is
included herein. This press release was issued to report that on
January 15, 2008, Rajat K. Gupta and Alberto Ibargüen were
each
elected to the Boards of Directors of AMR and American. Mr. Ibarguen
and Mr. Gupta will serve on the AMR Board’s Audit Committee. For their service
on the Boards, each will receive compensation from AMR pursuant to its standard
compensation arrangements for non-employee directors for serving on the AMR
Board, including: (a) an annual retainer of $20,000 for service on the Board;
(b) an annual retainer of $3,000 for service on one or more of the Board’s
standing committees; (c) $1,000 for attending or participating in a Board or
committee meeting (not to exceed $1,000 per day); (d) an annual award of 3,320
deferred units pursuant to the terms of AMR’s 2004 Directors Unit Incentive Plan
(the “DUIP”); and (e) the standard benefits and perquisites provided to its
other non-employee directors.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant
to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto
duly
authorized.
American
Airlines,
Inc.
/s/
Kenneth Wimberly
Kenneth
Wimberly
Corporate
Secretary
Dated: January
18, 2008
EXHIBIT
INDEX
ExhibitDescription
Exhibit
99.1
CONTACT:
Charley
Wilson
Corporate Communications
Fort
Worth, Texas
817-967-1577
corp.comm@aa.com
FOR
RELEASE:
Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008
RAJAT
K.
GUPTA AND ALBERTO IBARGÜEN ARE ELECTED
TO
THE
BOARDS OF AMR CORPORATION AND AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.
New
Directors Bring Vast Business and Community Experience to
AMR
FORT
WORTH, Texas – Rajat K. Gupta, Senior
Partner Emeritus of McKinsey & Company, and Alberto Ibargüen, former
newspaper publisher and now the President and CEO of the John S. and James
L.
Knight Foundation, have been elected to the Boards of Directors of AMR
Corporation and American Airlines, Inc. AMR Corporation is the parent
company of American Airlines and American Eagle, Inc.
“We
are fortunate
to bring Rajat’s and Alberto’s vast experience in business and broad community
involvement to the Boards of AMR and American Airlines," said Gerard J. Arpey,
Chairman and CEO of AMR and American Airlines. "They bring to our
Boards the necessary diverse points of view and personal qualities that will
help strengthen both AMR and American now and in the years to
come.”
Rajat
K.
Gupta
Born
in India and now a U.S. citizen residing
in Connecticut, Gupta joined McKinsey’s New York office in 1973, assumed the
leadership of its Scandinavian offices in 1981, and then its Chicago office
in
1989. He served as the Managing Director Worldwide of McKinsey from
1994-2003.
In
his 34-year career in consulting, Gupta has
served many leading companies on a broad set of topics related to strategy,
organization and operations. He also is active in many non-profit
institutions with a particular focus on education, health and
development. He served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s
Special Advisor on United Nations Reform, serves as a director of Goldman Sachs,
Procter & Gamble, Qatar
Financial
Centre, and is the Chairman of the Board of Genpact and New Silk Route Private
Equity.
Gupta
is also on the Board of Rockefeller
Foundation and contributes to the work of the Board of the Indian School of
Business; Chairman of Pan IIT Alumni Association; the Board of Associates of
the
Harvard Business School; the Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management;
the Dean’s Advisory Board for the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua
University; the Yale President’s Council; and the Board of Business Higher
Education Forum (BHEF). He also is Chairman of the Advisory Board of
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; co-Chair of the American India
Foundation (AIF); and serves on the boards of the India Education Initiative,
World Economic Forum, and Millennium Promise.
Gupta
holds a Bachelor’s of Technology degree
in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an M.B.A
from Harvard Business School.
Alberto
Ibargüen
A
resident of Miami, Ibargüen has served as CEO
and President of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation since 2005 and
is
the former publisher of The Miami Herald and of El Nuevo Herald. During his
tenure at the newspapers, The Miami Herald won three Pulitzer Prizes and El
Nuevo Herald won Spain’s Ortega y Gasset Prize for excellence in journalism.
Knight Foundation promotes excellence in journalism worldwide and invests in
the
vitality of 26 U.S. communities.
Ibargüen
graduated from Wesleyan University and
the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Between Wesleyan and Penn, he
served in the Peace Corps in Venezuela’s Amazon Territory and in Colombia.
He practiced law in Hartford, Conn., until he joined The Hartford Courant.
Following his career at The Hartford Courant he moved to Newsday in New York
before moving to Miami and The Miami Herald.
Ibargüen
is chairman of the board of the
Newseum in Washington, D.C., a museum dedicated to free speech and free press.
He is a member of the board of PepsiCo and of the Council on Foreign Relations,
is a former board member of NCL Corporation Ltd., is on the Trustees’ Council of
the National Gallery of Art, and serves as a Senior Advisor on the International
Advisory Board of the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua
University. Over the years, he also has served on the boards for the Lincoln
Center for the Performing Arts, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Wesleyan
University and Smith College, and was the national board chair of the Public
Broadcasting System.
For
his work to protect journalists in Latin
America as part of the Inter American Press Association, Ibargüen received a
Maria Moors Cabot citation from Columbia University and George Washington
University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Letters.
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