American Airlines News

Despite its past battery problems, the Dreamliner is a state-of-the-art aircraft which provides passengers a unique ride, good enough to inspire its main competitor. While focusing on revenue optimisation of these cabins, American Airlines makes the most of the Dreamliner's advantages with added passenger experience enhancements throughout.

Ensuring adequate competition in airports large and small gives those airports more negotiating power against the big three national carriers, and could ensure adequate infrastructure for more visitors from abroad to spend their travel dollars in the US. This last is, after all, the mandate of organizations like the US Travel Association.

Travel brands selling vacations and luxury suites have a significantly easier job selling consumers on their products than these more stark service providers but adding a light perspective to what can be a tedious form of travel is a good start.

British Airways' move signals more moves to come. Will American make it better for its flyers?

American and US Airways reacted fairly quickly to the competitive threat from the low cost carriers, but this battle will be ongoing in 2015.

Outfitting aircraft with Wi-Fi is part of the battle. As Routehappy points out, the quality is still lacking with fewer than one percent of flights in the U.S. equipped with Wi-Fi that has the bandwidth to stream video.

No doubt certain airlines and passengers will have something to say on how we could have made this rating system better, but we feel it’s a good start. Operators are standing by to take your calls with comments, but they don’t work for us and they may have no idea what you’re talking about.

American Air has become a model for how old companies can embrace new mediums to improve relations with its customers.

Business travelers who pay will continue to make out well as the major U.S. airlines come courting for their loyalty.