American Airlines Group Inc. is cutting some unprofitable international flights as U.S. carriers adjust their business plans to reflect higher fuel prices, the latest U.S. carrier to trim capacity after fuel prices rose.
The world’s largest airline by revenue said Tuesday that it plans to cut flights from Chicago to Shanghai, Philadelphia to Munich, and Los Angeles to Toronto among 11 total routes that will be dropped later this year and early in 2019.
“They’re not sustainable,” a spokesman for American said. American AAL, +0.85% is also reducing the frequency of a handful of international flights.
Investors fretted earlier this year that airlines were planning to add too many flights, potentially sparking a fare war that could threaten profitability. Then fuel prices began to climb, prompting airlines to pare back their plans to add routes.
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