American Airlines reports third-quarter 2025 financial results

FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) today reported its third-quarter 2025 financial results, including:

Revenue performance

American produced third-quarter revenue of $13.7 billion. Year-over-year unit revenues improved sequentially throughout the quarter with September producing positive unit revenue growth. Premium unit revenue growth year over year continues to outperform the main cabin.

The company remains focused on executing its strategic priorities and delivering on its revenue potential. By the end of this year, the company expects it will have fully restored its share of indirect revenue that was impacted by its former sales strategy. American is now shifting focus to expanding its share of indirect revenue beyond historical levels, which, combined with improved distribution capabilities, is expected to produce meaningful value for the airline.

AAdvantage program and co-branded credit card performance

American continues to see strong engagement with its industry-leading AAdvantage^® loyalty program, with active accounts up 7% year over year. In the third quarter, spending on co-branded credit cards increased 9% year over year as customers continue to value AAdvantage^® miles as their preferred rewards currency. American continues to work toward the implementation of its exclusive and expanded partnership with Citi, which starts in January 2026.

Customer experience

American is elevating every step of the travel journey for its customers. The company plans to open new Flagship^® lounges in Miami and Charlotte in addition to expanding the Admirals Club^® lounge footprint at both airports. American’s new Flagship Suite^® seats on its Boeing 787-9 aircraft led American’s widebody fleet in customer satisfaction scores during the third quarter. American’s Flagship Suite^® product will expand to the airline’s transcontinental routes on its new Airbus A321XLRs. The company also announced investments to transform the onboard experience on its regional aircraft, unveiled a new coffee partnership with Lavazza, launched its first champagne partnership with Champagne Bollinger and enhanced its inflight experience with elevated amenity kits and dining options.

Operational performance

The American team delivered a resilient operation in the third quarter, despite a difficult operating environment due to significant weather events and the FAA technology outage in September and associated ATC challenges. Thanks to investments in technology and its operating systems, American quickly recovered from irregular operations in the quarter and successfully mitigated the impact to customers.

Balance sheet and liquidity

The company ended the third quarter with $36.8 billion of total debt⁴ and $29.9 billion of net debt⁵. The company remains on track to achieve its goal of total debt⁴ less than $35 billion by the end of 2027. The company ended the third quarter with $10.3 billion of total available liquidity, comprised of cash and short-term investments plus undrawn capacity under revolving credit and other facilities.

Guidance and investor update

Based on its current booked revenue, expectations of future demand trends and fuel price, and excluding the impact of special items, the company expects its adjusted earnings per diluted share² to be between $0.45 and $0.75 for the fourth quarter of 2025 and $0.65 and $0.95 for the full year.

For additional financial forecasting detail, please refer to the company’s investor update, furnished, together with this press release, with the SEC on a current report on Form 8-K. This filing is also available at aa.com/investorrelations.

Conference call and webcast details

The company will conduct a live audio webcast of its financial results conference call at 7:30 a.m. CT today. The call will be available to the public on a listen-only basis at aa.com/investorrelations. An archive of the webcast will be available through Nov. 23, 2025.

Notes

See the accompanying notes in the financial tables section of this press release for further explanation, including a reconciliation of all GAAP to non-GAAP financial information.

1. The company recognized $3 million of net special items in the third quarter after the effect of taxes.
2. Adjusted earnings per diluted share guidance excludes the impact of net special items. The company is unable to reconcile certain forward-looking information to GAAP as the nature or amount of net special items cannot be determined at this time.
3. Please see the accompanying notes for the company’s definition of free cash flow, a non-GAAP measure. The company is unable to reconcile forward-looking free cash flow to GAAP as the nature or amount of items that impact net cash provided by operating activities cannot be determined at this time.
4. All references to total debt include debt, finance and operating lease liabilities and pension obligations.
5. Net debt is defined as total debt net of unrestricted cash and short-term investments.

About American Airlines Group
As a leading global airline, American Airlines offers thousands of flights per day to more than 350 destinations in more than 60 countries. The airline is a founding member of the oneworld alliance, whose members serve more than 900 destinations around the globe. Shares of American Airlines Group Inc. trade on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol AAL. Learn more about what’s happening at American by visiting news.aa.com and connect with American @AmericanAir and at Facebook.com/AmericanAirlines. To Care for People on Life’s Journey^®.

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