American Airlines is cutting thousands of flights from its schedule for the remainder of summer and fall to “ensure operational reliability” for the rest of the year.
Fort Worth-based American has returned faster and more aggressively than other airlines from the COVID-19 pandemic, even though there are lingering challenges with staffing, pilots, fuel costs and supply chains.
Schedules from flight tracker Cirium show that in the last month, American has cut more than 90,000 flights between August and December, about 6% of its schedule for the year. A bulk of those cuts are in October, one of the slowest months of the year between the summer travel season and the Thanksgiving rush.
