American Airlines Marks 25th Anniversary Of It's First Nonstop U.S. - London Flight; Inaugural Dallas/Fort Worth - London Gatwick Flight Launched A New Era in International Travel for American.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-21 May 2007-American Airlines: American Airlines Marks 25th Anniversary Of It's First Nonstop U.S. - London Flight; Inaugural Dallas/Fort Worth - London Gatwick Flight Launched A New Era in International Travel for American(C)1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:21052007 FORT WORTH, Texas - It was May 19, 1982, when American Airlines Flight 50 departed Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) for the first time, bound for London's Gatwick Airport.

That day, American's Boeing 747 touched down and pulled up to the gate at Gatwick approximately nine hours later to complete the first nonstop American Airlines flight from the United States to London. Today such flights are routine, but on that spring day 25 years ago AA Flight 50 marked the...