Executive Airlines, Inc. was a Puerto Rican-based regional airline headquartered at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the main airport for the United States territory, near the capital of San Juan.[1][2] The airline was a wholly owned subsidiary of the AMR Corporation and it was paid by fellow AMR member American Airlines to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on American Eagle flights that were scheduled, marketed and sold by American Airlines. Executive Airlines operated an extensive inter-island network in the Caribbean and the Bahamas from its hub in San Juan.[3]
The airline was founded as Executive Air Charter in 1979; it joined the American Eagle system on September 15, 1986 as an independent airline. The company was purchased by AMR on December 7, 1989. In late 2007, AMR attempted to spin off