American Adds Budapest, Prague And Buenos Aires Flights For Summer 2026

American Airlines is reviving immoderate of its pre-pandemic destinations for illustration Prague and Budapest, Hungary, arsenic international travel continues to clasp up amended than domestic demand.

Other additions see its first-ever Dallas Fort Worth International flights to Athens, Greece, and year-round nonstop work betwixt Miami and Milan.

American is besides extending work for adjacent year’s World Cup, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Dallas and betwixt Dallas and Zurich, wherever soccer’s governing body, FIFA, is based,. Those flights will tally from May 21 to Aug. 4 of adjacent year, a bid for much business recreation and sports tourism.

Brian Znotins, American’s elder vice president of web and schedule planning, told CNBC that nan hose saw precocious numbers of customers from Argentina recreation to Doha, Qatar, during nan 2022 World Cup and that he expects moreover much to recreation to nan 2026 World Cup, which will beryllium played successful Canada, nan U.S. and Mexico.

He besides said nan hose is expanding its Europe work successful a stake that customers would alternatively link successful a U.S. hub for illustration Dallas aliases Charlotte, North Carolina.

“We took a caller look astatine wherever nan request hotspots are successful Europe and we proceed to spot place successful Italy and Greece,” Znotins said. “We proceed to spot precocious numbers of travelers connecting successful Europe to get to places for illustration Rome and Athens,” truthful nan hose is adding much options from U.S. hubs.

With Prague and Budapest work from American’s hub astatine Philadelphia International Airport, he said galore customers already alert into 1 metropolis and retired of nan different for Danube River cruises and different tours.

American’s portion gross for home flights successful nan past 4th fell 6.4% from 2024, while trans-Atlantic gross roseate 5%.

Many of American’s summertime routes were discontinued because of nan Covid-19 pandemic, but Znotins said nan changes weren’t conscionable a return to that period.

“We’ve redesigned nan full hose based connected today’s request situation and not immoderate desire to get backmost to 2019,” he said. “Everything has changed.”

American will usage Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners for each nan caller flights isolated from for Zurich to Dallas, which will beryllium flown by Boeing 777-200s.