American Airlines is making a major restructuring of its route system, with some airports based in the United States gaining flights and many others losing services.

American Airlines has begun asking its customers to provide additional information in accordance with the new Secure Flight Passenger Data (SFPD) requirements of the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, is considering making an equity investment in Japan Airlines, the flag-carrier airline of Japan.

A codeshare agreement between Etihad Airways, the flag-carrier airline of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, will take effect in end-August 2009.

American Airlines will charge most of the economy-class passengers a fee of $50 to check a second piece of checked luggage on certain international flights for tickets bought on or after September 14, 2009.

American Airlines has announced that it is extending its in-flight wireless internet service to more planes.

American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, and GOL Airlines, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, have signed a frequent flier pact that will give customers more choice and flexibility while booking a journey to Brazil.

Southwest Airlines and American Airlines, both based in the United States, have announced seasonal changes – including reductions and additions – at Nashville International Airport in Tennessee, the United States.

American Airlines has decided to reduce seat capacity further on international and domestic routes in late August 2009.

American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, will become, on June 11, 2009, the first United States-based airline to test what has been hailed as the “next-generation technology and procedures” to prove that long-haul trans-Atlantic flights could be environment-friendly as well as fuel-efficient.

A pilot of the American Airlines failed a breathanalyzer test at Heathrow Airport in London and was arrested 20 minutes before the plane was due to take off. 

The United States-based American Airlines is inducting, into its fleet, the first of 76 new Boeing 737-800 planes that would operate on a number of routes passing through O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Investigators of the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) have blamed the maintenance workers of American Airlines for the emergency landing of Flight 1400 at Lambert-St Louis International Airport in St Louis, Missouri, the United States, on September 28, 2007.

  American Airlines expanding in-flight internet service to 300 more planes.

American Airlines plans to provide Wi-Fi internet services to its domestic flights.

American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, says it is planning to lay off up to 410 flight attendants on April 1, 2009, “unless the carrier can get, by March 6, 2009, sufficient number of volunteers to take leaves, early departures or other steps to reduce their ranks.”

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, had to inspect and begin follow-up action in order to bring its fleet of about 270 McDonnell Douglas MD-80 aircraft into full compliance with the safety rules after mistakes in maintenance led to damage of the passenger-evacuation slides on the rear of many MD-80 jets.

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, has partnered with the Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA) and the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to launch the Aviation Safety Action Program (ASAP).

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, and the Transport Workers Union of America, the union representing thousands of ground workers, have jointly requested the services of a mediator through the National Mediation Board to resolve issues regarding wage and benefit that have remained undecided after 11 days of negotiations.

American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, plans to buy as many as 100 new, long-range Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

American Airlines, the largest United States-based carrier, has decided to filter pornographic websites on in-flight internet service.

A new kind of problem seems to be gathering storm in the air: Flight attendants with American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, have asked the company to filter its in-flight wireless internet service to block access to pornography and other websites which the workers believe are “inappropriate.”

Venezuela is cutting the number of flights it will allow United States-based airlines to operate to and from the country.

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  As a part of its continuing efforts at downsizing flights, American Airlines, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, has sent notices of possible layoffs to 469 employees at airports in 5 cities in the United States.

American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, has requested the United States Department of Transportation to allow the carrier to delay the launching of its non-stop service between O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, the United States, and Beijing, China, by one year.

The European Commission (EU) has begun an anti-trust investigation into a revenue-sharing pact signed between British Airways, American Airlines and Spain’s Iberia Airlines.

American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States, has decided to waive the longstanding fee to check a third bag for active members of the United States military.

British Airways, the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the biggest airlines in Europe, is getting closer to signing a merger agreement with the United States-based American Airlines, the world’s largest  airline, media reports say.

By the end of the current year, high fuel costs would spell doom for as many as 7000 employees at American Airlines.