Summary American Airlines will reduce Chicago O'Hare-Heathrow flights from four daily to triple daily next summer. It will be its lowest summer frequency since 2015 outside of COVID years. American and British Airways will have six daily O'Hare services, down from seven now.
London Heathrow is American Airlines most-served European airport. The enormous Heathrow-US demand and one world and transatlantic joint venture partner British Airways explain it. In American's schedule update over the weekend, it removed one of its daily Chicago O'Hare-Heathrow flights planned for next summer.
When writing on September 9, it is currently unclear what will replace it. Which passenger aircraft do you think made the cut in September? American: currently four daily flights Using Cirium data to analyze the carrier's O'Hare -Heathrow schedule development indicates that it has had four daily flights for many summers . In fact, it even had five daily departures as recently as October 2008.
Larger gauge aircraft, with more seats/departure, partly offset the lower frequency. Due to lower demand, flights are reduced to double daily in winter , helping with winter pricing, yields, and loads. What is the current schedule? In September 2024 , American has four daily O'Hare-Heathrow services, just like it has had for 12 of the past 20 September months.
Its schedule is shown below. Not shown is BA, which has a triple-daily O'Hare service this summer for the first time since 2008, making seven daily fli.