American Airlines updated its winter flying schedule over the weekend with plans to launch new routes and resume flying on routes it had temporarily suspended.
After announcing that service to 15 cities would be cut in October, the expansion calls for new traditional hub-and-spoke routes but also sees American adopt more point-to-point routes – where flights don't touch a hub city – between smaller markets and leisure destinations. Traditionally the domain of low-cost carriers, American's latest announcement will see the carrier compete against the likes of Frontier Airlines and Allegiant Air for leisure business on some routes.
Mexico is among the most prominently featured destinations with seasonal service to secondary cities throughout the US to Cancun and San Jose del Cabo. The Latin American country is among the few open to Americans arriving by air as international borders remain largely shut to US citizens.
The push for more non-standard routes to leisure destinations comes as more legacy carriers shift their flying to new travel trends. United Airlines in April, for example, announced the launch of more routes to Florida from non-hub cities.
Along with the new routes, American listed resumption dates in its schedule for routes that it had temporarily ceased flying during the pandemic, according to schedule from the aviation/travel data company Cirium and RoutesOnline, including those it had announced but never launched.
Here's where American is flying in the winter.