American Airlines is the largest operator in the US, with Cirium Diio data showing an average of 6,828 daily services in June. Considerable use of regional jets is critical to this figure. It is also the world’s largest airline in various respects.

American, and its regional unit American Eagle, operate one in four of the country’s domestic flights. This falls to a fifth of the short-haul international activity, although it remains number one thanks to its well-positioned Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Miami International Airport (MIA) hubs. However, American is only the US’s third-largest long-haul carrier, with 11% of such flights.

American Suspends These 6 Routes

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Each week, airlines, including oneworld’s largest member, submit schedule changes to Cirium, OAG, and so on. This may encompass multiple things: new routes, markets that have been eliminated, links with added or reduced flights or seats, equipment swaps, changes to operating periods, and more.

Updates can identify intriguing things. In the latest edition, American confirmed that six domestic routes will not be served between August 5 and October 5. The higher jet fuel prices influenced this decision-making. While six suspensions might not seem overly dramatic, it is, nonetheless, an interesting development — not least because several of the routes only started or resumed in 2025/2026. Two only began in April 2026.

The 6 Markets Had 1.4 Million Passengers Last Year

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Some may say that the airport pairs are not of a significant size. According to the US Department of Transportation for 2025, the six markets collectively had just over 1.4 million local, or point-to-point, round-trip passengers last year. That equates to 3,800+ passengers daily.

This figure includes everyone, regardless of which airline they flew on and whether they traveled nonstop or connected en route. Only those who flew between the two places are included; they did not fly elsewhere. A further 300,000 or so passengers transited to another service at one or both ends of each airport pair.

Obviously, the DOT shows that LAX to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) was by far the single largest point-to-point market. 648,753 two-way local passengers traveled, while a further 187,866 passengers connected at one or both ends. As American did not begin nonstop flights until April 2026, it was only the sixth-largest airline last year. It had just 4,408 passengers; nearly everyone via DFW and CLT.

As LAX and IAD are both United Airlines hubs, the Star Alliance member was overwhelmingly critical. It carried 572,739 local passengers (88%), of which nearly everyone flew nonstop (554,067). That’s not surprising, as Cirium shows an average of six daily departures in each direction in 2025. A tenth of the services were on widebodies: the so-called domestic, 364-seat Boeing 777-200 and the 787-9.

4 Of American’s 6 Routes Operated Fully Or Partly In 2025

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They are LAX to Columbus and Pittsburgh, and CLT to Ontario and Sacramento International Airport (SMF). Let’s narrow the focus to CLT to SMF. The DOT shows that US Airways inaugurated nonstop flights in 2008. In 2025, American transported 156,110 round-trip passengers, which was the second-best year to date, after 2017 (160,394).

The figure of 156,110 passengers included everyone, regardless of where they went. The route had a load factor of 88%, which was about six percentage points higher than American’s average domestic load factor from CLT. It is, as always, about how it was achieved.

Only 52,631 passengers were local, while effectively all the remaining 103,479 passengers transferred to another service in CLT. Booking data shows that the top five most popular markets were Sacramento to/from New York JFK, Raleigh/Durham, Orlando, Philadelphia, and Fort Lauderdale.