American adds 4 LaGuardia routes, cuts 7 in effort to woo NYC fliers

American Airlines is shaking up its route map at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) to higher compete in the Big Apple.

The modifications embrace 4 new routes, together with one that may see the Oneworld alliance provider return to the New York-Atlanta market — a route it final flew in 2023. American additionally will add new service from LGA to Fort Lauderdale and Madison in Wisconsin starting in September. The fourth new route will come in Charleston, South Carolina, the place American will convert its seasonal service to year-round and add extra flights to the schedule.

American will even add extra flights on its current schedules this winter to Burlington, Vermont; Columbia, South Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit; Fayetteville in northwest Arkansas; Greensboro, North Carolina; Indianapolis; Pittsburgh and Tulsa.

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However, the added routes and extra flights will come come on the expense of seven routes from LaGuardia. American will minimize its present LGA service to Cincinnati and Dayton in Ohio; Knoxville, Tennessee; Louisville; Minneapolis; Omaha, Nebraska; and Sarasota, Florida, a spokesperson stated.

The spokesperson described the modifications at LaGuardia as “reoptimizing” the airline’s slot portfolio on the airport to higher serve New Yorkers.

“In New York, we have a large and loyal customer base, significant AAdvantage penetration, significant co-brand [credit card] penetration, and we’re excited about the evolving position that we’re creating,” stated Steve Johnson, American’s chief technique officer, throughout its quarterly earnings name in April. “LaGuardia will be the largest, I think, operation that we’ve had in history. We’ve optimized it, we think, for our New York customers.”

Of the highest 5 locations for native vacationers — or ones not connecting to one other flight — from LaGuardia in 2024, Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale are the one two that American doesn’t serve, U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics knowledge exhibits.

Adding flights on these key routes may bolster American’s attractiveness to native New York fliers.

Both Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale are served nonstop from LaGuardia by Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines, schedule knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium exhibits. Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines additionally fly the LaGuardia-Atlanta route.

American pulled again in New York underneath its alliance with JetBlue that ended in 2023. Since then, the airline has slowly constructed again its flight choices at JFK International Airport (JFK) and LaGuardia Airport (LGA).

And whereas American and JetBlue have been understood to be in talks over a probably renewed alliance, the previous disclosed Monday that these talks have been over and it was suing the latter for at the very least $1 million associated to the tip of their earlier pact.

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American will compete with Delta on each the LaGuardia-Charleston and LaGuardia-Madison routes, in addition to Spirit on the previous, Cirium schedules present.

Below are American’s additions at New York LaGuardia this winter:

• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL): Six each day flights starting Sept. 3.
• Burlington’s Patrick Leahy International Airport (BTV) in Vermont: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from Sept. 3 via April 5, 2026.
• Charleston International Airport (CHS) in South Carolina: Two each day flights starting Sept. 3, and three each day flights from Nov. 2.
• Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) in South Carolina: Increase to two each day flights from one on Sept. 3.
• John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH) in Ohio: Increase to 5 each day flights from 4 on Sept. 3.
• Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW): Increase to 4 each day flights from three on Sept. 3.
• Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL): Two each day flights starting Nov. 2.
• Greensboro’s Piedmont Triad International Airport (GSO) in North Carolina: Increase to 4 each day flights from three on Sept. 3.
• Indianapolis International Airport (IND): Increase to 5 each day flights from 4 on Sept. 3.
• Madison’s Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) in Wisconsin: One each day flight starting Sept. 3.
• Northwest Arkansas National Airport (XNA): Increase to three each day flights from two on Sept. 3.
• Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT): Increase to 5 each day flights from 4 on Sept. 3.
• Tulsa International Airport (TUL): Increase to two each day flights from one on Sept. 3.

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