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American Airlines will double the salary of company president Robert Isom when he takes over as CEO on March 31, but his total compensation package will be determined by how the debt-laden company recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic downturn.

MIAMI — At the request of the Cuban government, American Airlines did not allow Cuban activist Anamely Ramos to board a flight at Miami International Airport bound for Havana on Wednesday.

Mike Aresco is obviously desperate.

Updated algorithms and increased data sharing could improve flight reliability amid a fragile system, scientists say.

On the day that Frontier Airlines announced its intent to merge with its fellow discount air carrier Spirit Airlines, the acquiring carrier suffered an ill-timed IT problem that briefly grounded its jets. So Monday presented a golden opportunity to the many bloggers who obsess about the airline industry and its…

American Airlines is ordering 30 new 737 Max 8 jets from Boeing, betting big on a domestic travel recovery with the controversial plane that was grounded in 2019.

American Airlines has cut thousands of flights from its schedule for the month of March as omicron, pilot shortages and delivery delays on Boeing’s 787 planes hinder the recovery from the two-year-old COVID-19 pandemic.

American Airlines moved ahead of several of its major competitors in on-time arrival rankings in 2021, despite a year of turbulence as the Fort Worth-based carrier and the rest of the aviation industry tried to find smoother skies in the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic.

American Airlines’ union pilots are picketing Thursday at DFW International Airport as they push for a new contract with the carrier, but they aren’t ready to walk off the job anytime soon.

Fort Worth-based American Airlines lost $931 million in the fourth quarter to finish a 2021 year that was as much about surviving the COVID-19 and its variants as it was about recovering from the devastating pandemic, the company reported Thursday morning.

An American Airlines flight to London has turned around and returned to Miami after a woman on the plane refused to wear a face mask