American Airlines is gearing up for a busy summer of travel.
For a little over five years, airlines have been plagued by challenges from staffing to a global pandemic and even operation difficulties with delivery delays.operations chief David Seymour says the Fort Worth-based air carrier has taken in the lessons learned looking ahead to this summer.Seymour highlighted that during the summer season between May 17 and Sept. 3, American is expecting over 72 million travelers.
adding 100 flights in the summer of 2019. It began operating mainline flights in terminal B’s gates 5 to 12 and expanded to include 15 new gates at the Terminal E satellite. DFW International Airport serves as a connecting point to many domestic, but also international destinations.A global pandemic shook up the industry and halted travel at the tail-end of 2019 and most of 2020. Airlines didn’t see a strong rebound until over a year later.
Part of American’s plan for peak travel seasons includes thinking about things that could happen and making plans for how to navigate those obstacles, he said. Some of those tools include tweaking the schedule to ensure reliability. One of those focuses is departure times.“The root of what we’ve done to run a safe and reliable airline is focusing on planning executing the recovery,” Seymour said. “That’s the hallmark that continues to stress for the team.
Another part of the operation includes having the right number of aircraft in place to get travelers off the ground.
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