American Airlines adds more flights to Europe from regional U.S. cities

As folks who grew up outside major cities know, a small luxury when occurring a faraway vacation is to fly to your destination without delay — more cost-effective fares, no rushed transfers in a crowded airport and no long hours spent in transit on the way home.

Tapping into this traveler interest in flying direct despite the proven fact that one does now not live in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, American Airlines (AAL) just announced 5 new flights to Europe from cities resembling Philadelphia, Miami and Charlotte, N.C.

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The primary new flight will launch on March 30, 2025 and run a Boeing 787-eight Dreamliner (BA) between Chicago's O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Madrid's Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD) — a gateway for many tourists for Spanish and wider European vacations.

New American Airlines routes to take American citizens to Edinburgh, Athens

The choice new routes encompass flights from Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to Edinburgh and Milan launching on May 23 and a route between Charlotte and Athens starting on June 5.

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The final flight to launch for the summer season on July 5 will run between Miami and Rome on a Boeing 777-200. Both new flights to Europe from Philadelphia bring the airline's network from town to eighty destinations while Edinburgh, Scotland and Milan were chosen as cities that see high tourist interest right through the summertime months.

American has now not flown to Edinburgh since 2019 (the Scottish capital is a six-hour train from London) but is bringing the route back for the summer of 2025.

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'More the way you probably can debate with favorite destinations in Europe'

"We not sleep for providing customers more the way you probably can debate with their favorite destinations in Europe next summer," American Airlines Senior Vice President of Network and Time table Planning Brian Znotins said in an announcement. "Resuming service to Edinburgh and adding new routes to other popular destinations across the continent will offer customers convenient get entry to from American’s industry-leading domestic network to all that Europe has to supply."

The total flights will probably be reachable to book online for 2025 travel from Sept. 9, 2024. The new routes are an early start to the airline's upcoming summer schedule, as which is when demand for travel to European cities outside metropolises resembling London and Paris spikes.

For the 2024 summer season, main American competitor United Airlines (UAL) brought in new flights to non-capital Portuguese destinations resembling Faro and Ponta Delgada on top of routes to Spain's Malaga and Italy's Naples from Newark, N.J.

"American will offer more than 70 on every day basis departures to more than 20 trans-Atlantic destinations in summer 2025," the airline writes further. "Launched in 2024, American will bring back flights to Copenhagen, Denmark (CPH); Naples, Italy (NAP); and Nice, France (NCE) for the 2025 summer travel season."

American is additionally bringing back the new flights from Newark to Copenhagen, Nice and Naples as well to San Francisco to Rome that it launched for the 2024 summer season for a 2nd run in 2025. The flights will run a couple of times a week — for certain routes, on every day basis — until the weather starts to chill and then be retired until the return of the season.

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