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American Airlines and Google are touting a sustainable aviation fuel deal, but SAF remains costly, supply-constrained, and subsidy-driven while they actually found a way to reduce emissions.
American Airlines pilot trading cards are now in circulation for the airline’s 100th anniversary, but not every pilot has them yet. Here’s the best way to ask.
American Airlines is spending billions on better seats, lounges, wine, and food, but recent service complaints show its premium pivot still depends on getting flight attendants to deliver it.
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is still talking about buying American Airlines, and continued to give remarks advocating for it at the IATA annual general meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Kirby is keeping pressure on American Airlines CEO Robert Isom and his board while pretending the matter is practically closed.
American Airlines advertises same-day confirmed changes as a way to move to a better flight, but its rules make the benefit far harder to use than United or Delta. Seats can still be for sale, first class passengers can be blocked, hub customers can lose flexibility, and the app may not even show options that should be available.
American Airlines flight attendants are suing for overtime pay under Illinois law, arguing that time at the airport should count as work even though their union contract pays under a very different system. It is part of a growing wave of lawsuits trying to use state wage laws to punch through airline labor contracts.
An American Airlines passenger says the woman seated behind him became erratic during descent, lunged over his seat, and slammed him into the cabin wall hard enough to knock off his glasses and possibly leave him unconscious. He is suing the alleged attacker directly, not American, while a related federal criminal case plays out first.
Three weeks ago I revealed that American Airlines had brought restaurant-style ordering of hot food items to its Flagship lounges. American has now announced this change – along with several others.
American Airlines has now been dropped from the Dow Jones Transportation Average, two years after being kicked out of the S&P 500. Its stock price had fallen so far that it carried less than 0.5% weight in the price-weighted index — while Delta, United, Southwest, and even Alaska remain.
American Airlines spent the pandemic shrinking into a more domestic, partner-dependent airline, retiring 40% of its long-haul fleet and avoiding new widebody orders for years. Now, as management tries to reposition American as a premium global carrier, a new widebody order appears back on the table — with Boeing 787s and Airbus A330neos looking more plausible than they have in years.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
