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Airline Adds New Seasonal Routes to Popular Holiday Destinations

American Airlines Unwraps Record-Breaking Seasonal Schedule to Caribbean & Latin America for Winter 2025-26

Fort Worth, Texas – December 2, 2025 American Airlines today announced the most extensive seasonal route expansion in its 99-year history, launching 11 new non-stop services and resuming six dormant Caribbean and Latin American flights between Dec. 5, 2025, and March 28, 2026. The additions deliver 500,000 incremental seats—an 18-percent capacity bump versus last winter—across warm-weather destinations that have posted double-digit traffic gains every month since March, according to Airlines Reporting Corp.

The winter schedule is anchored by daily service from New York-JFK to Bridgetown, Barbados (BGI) starting Nov. 5, followed by first-ever Saturday-only links to St. Lucia (UVF), St. Maarten (SXM) and St. Vincent (SVD) on Dec. 7. Miami passengers gain a new daily route to La Romana, Dominican Republic (LRM) on Dec. 5, while Philadelphia re-gains Saturday service to both Bridgetown and Liberia, Costa Rica (LIR) in December. All sectors will be operated with 737-800 aircraft retrofitted with satellite Wi-Fi and 30-percent-larger overhead bins, the carrier said.

Bookings for Caribbean travel this winter are outpacing 2024 by 22 percent, the strongest forward-demand the region has ever recorded, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s October pulse survey. Barbados alone expects 122,000 U.S. arrivals between December and March, a 28-percent jump that would shatter pre-pandemic records.

“Americans are prioritizing warmth and direct flights,” said CTO acting CEO Neil Walters. “Airlines that add seats right now are capturing premium leisure spend.”

American’s own revenue management data show average peak-week fares to the Caribbean up 14 percent year-over-year, while load factors on restarted routes—Punta Cana from Indianapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh and Raleigh—are running 6 points ahead of forecast. “We saw the same pattern last summer in Europe: when discretionary income meets limited supply, you get yield expansion,” said Helane Becker, airline analyst at TD Cowen. “American is essentially importing that playbook to the Caribbean.”

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American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) is the world’s largest airline by scheduled passenger revenue, offering 3,500 daily flights to 290 destinations in 60 countries from hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, D.C.