American Airlines adds 5 new European routes, boosts 10 flights for summer 2025

05.09.2024 - 15:05 / thepointsguy.com / Brian Znotins

Even though the summer season doesn't officially end for another few weeks, American Airlines is already plotting big moves for next summer.

The Fort Worth-based carrier announced Thursday a big network expansion for summer 2025, which includes five new routes to Europe, a longer season on four key transatlantic flights and much more.

You'll find all the details of American's summer 2025 schedule below.

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Tickets for the new flights will be available starting Monday through American's website and mobile app.

American expects another busy summer of travelers crisscrossing the Atlantic, and it's meeting that demand with five new routes to Europe, including:

Highlights of the expansion include two new routes from Philadelphia, American's main transatlantic gateway. This summer, American added three new transatlantic destinations from Philly — Copenhagen; Naples, Italy; and Nice, France — and now the airline is adding two more.

American confirmed that all three new summer 2024 destinations, along with the route to Barcelona from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), will relaunch next summer.

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Notably, American will serve Edinburgh for the first time since 2019. The airline hasn't served the Scottish capital since before the pandemic; it last flew from Philly to Edinburgh in October 2019, Cirium schedules show.

Furthermore, American is adding two new routes to Italy, one of the most popular destinations for U.S. travelers looking for a European summer vacation. In total, American will serve Rome from six U.S. airports in 2025 — Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New York and Philadelphia — more than any other domestic airline.

American will also serve Athens next summer from four U.S. airports (Charlotte, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia), the most of any U.S. airline.

Meanwhile, the new flight from Chicago to Madrid will be supported by onward connecting traffic across Europe, the Middle East and Africa on board American's Oneworld alliance and transatlantic joint venture partner Iberia.

These new routes aren't as "sexy" as the new destinations American added last year. Asked about the strategy behind these new routes, Brian Znotins, American's senior vice president of network and schedule planning, told TPG that "we really look to where people are going and what we've seen ... I'll use Athens as an example. Despite all the services that have been added to Greece over the course of the last couple of years, including ours, there's still an incredible number of passengers connecting in Europe to get to Athens. And that really signifies that