American Airlines picks Fort Worth site for new headquarters
An American Airlines Boeing 787-800 (corporate stock photo courtesy of American Airlines)
American Airlines Group Inc. is moving its headquarters but staying in the same Fort Worth neighborhood.
Executives of the Fort Worth-based airline told employees this week that American will build a new home about a 2-mile drive from its current headquarters. American will remain close to its biggest hub, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and keep a Fort Worth address.
Executive Vice Presidents Stephen Johnson and Elise Eberwein said in a memo the two buildings that make up American's current home are older — built in the 1980s — inefficient, and becoming expensive to maintain. They are "inconvenient and uninviting to non-headquarters employees," the executives said. About 5,000 people work there.
The new site adjoins American's operations and training centers and its C.R. Smith Museum. American plans to break ground on the four-building complex next spring and move in by summer or early fall 2018. The company didn't disclose costs.