American Airlines is adding new international routes and reviving others that it cut before the COVID-19 pandemic in time for the summer of 2026.
In a statement, the carrier said it will bring back nonstop flights to Milan, Prague, and Budapest, Hungary, extend service to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and add new connections to Athens and Zurich.
“Customers continue to tell us that Europe is where they want to go each summer and these new routes make it even easier to cross the Atlantic in 2026,” said Brian Znotins, American’s senior vice president of network and scheduling planning, in a news release.
All flights will be operated by a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, except Dallas/Fort Worth to Zurich, which will see service with a Boeing 777-200. Miami-to-Milan was last flown by the carrier in 2020, while the two Philadelphia routes were last scheduled in 2019.
Year-round service between Miami and Milan will launch March 29, 2026, followed by seasonal flights between Philadelphia and Budapest, Philadelphia and Prague, Dallas/Fort Worth and Athens, and Dallas/Fort Worth and Zurich, all set to start May 21, 2026.
Seasonal Extension
An existing seasonal service between Dallas/Fort Worth and Buenos Aires will get a summertime extension, from May 21 to Aug. 3, 2026. The extension is meant to support increased travel to and from Texas during the 2026 World Cup, which will use Dallas and Houston, among many other cities, as host locations.
The carrier noted that its Philadelphia-Budapest route will be the only nonstop flight in the world between the U.S. and the Hungarian capital.
The airline also plans to increase capacity on existing service between Los Angeles and Tokyo and Dallas/Fort Worth and Tokyo in the summer of 2026.
