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American Airlines is looking at a particularly high-volume summer schedule.
American Airlines is planning for its “strongest” summer schedule at PHL since pre-COVID 2019 at t, writes Emma Dooling for Philadelphia Business Journal.
The airline is adding three nonstop daily international routes from Philadelphia International Airport in the next two months through October.
A route to Nice, France just started. Flights to Naples, Italy and Copenhagen, Denmark will kick off June 5 and 6.
In June, it will also resume daily service between Philadelphia and San Antonio, Texas, through September.
American Airlines is the airport’s largest carrier and is expected to fly 3.5 million people from Philadelphia between May 17 and Sept. 3.
It currently has 45,963 flights out of PHL from May through September. In 2023, it offered 37,489 flights over the same five months.
The increase is due to “robust demand” for travel to and through Philadelphia, said Lakshman Amaranayaka, the vice president for American’s PHL hub.
“We live in a historic city. It’s an incredible place for people to come and visit, so people are coming to Philadelphia and traversing, but also the connecting traffic that we can generate out of Philadelphia,” Amaranayaka said.
Read more about American Airline’s expanding Philadelphia Airport summer schedule in the Philadelphia Business Journal.