American Chases European Profits With New Copenhagen, Naples, and Nice Flights

American Airlines will add three new European destinations to its map next summer, as U.S. domestic fares fall and airlines post record transatlantic profits.

Copenhagen, Naples, and Nice will join the Oneworld Alliance carrier's map in May and June. American will offer daily flights from its Philadelphia hub, which has been among the slowest of its hubs to recover from the pandemic. The airline will also add new flights between Dallas-Fort Worth and Barcelona in June.

“It’s all related to wanting to find year-round homes for airplanes," American Senior Vice President of Network Planning Brian Znotins said in the latest episode of the airline's podcast, Tell Me Why. The four new transatlantic routes are counter-cyclical to other recent additions, like Dallas-Fort Worth to Auckland, that only fly in the winter, he explained.

The growth comes as yields in the U.S. domestic market — by far the largest for American — have begun to fall from last ye