NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) March 29, 2006--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today assigned its 'B+' bank loan rating and its '1' recovery rating to a $773 million amended and restated senior secured credit facility dated as of March 27, 2006, available to AMR Corp. subsidiary American Airlines Inc. (B-/Stable/--). AMR (B-/Stable/B-3) guarantees the facility. The credit facility amends an existing bank facility (which has the same bank loan and recovery ratings) to revise pricing, allocation of credit between the revolving credit facility ($325 million) and senior secured term loan ($448 million), and the cash flow coverage covenant. "American's credit facility is rated 'B+', two notches above the corporate credit rating, with a recovery rating of '1', indicating the expectation
