American Airlines Adds Fall ‘Football Flights’ On More Than 65 Routes

American Airlines reacted to the May 14 release of the National Football League’s (NFL) 2025 schedule by unveiling a slew of fall flights aimed at attracting traveling fans.

As well as adding flights on 24 domestic routes to correspond with professional football games, mostly played on Sundays, the airline said it will also offer additional flights between Miami and Madrid for the Nov. 16 game between the Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders being played in the Spanish capital.

The carrier will also add flights on more than 40 routes to correspond with college football games, mostly played on Saturdays. The flights to and from games played between university teams will largely be Friday–Sunday roundtrips.

American will collectively add over 185 flights corresponding with professional and college games between Aug. 28 and Jan. 5. In total, the carrier said it will offer around 22,000 seats on the “football flights.”

The NFL services will kick off on Sept. 11 when American operates a flight between Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) and Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB) in Wisconsin, with a Sept. 12 return. The roundtrip corresponds with a Thursday night game between the Green Bay Packers and the visiting Commanders.

With most NFL games on Sundays, American has largely scheduled Friday or Saturday flights with Monday returns. Many of the football flights aim to capitalize on games hosted in destination cities appealing to vacationers looking to pair the professional game with a weekend away.

For example, four games hosted by the Las Vegas Raiders will see American operate flights from visiting teams’ cities, including Cleveland, Jacksonville, Florida, Kansas City, Missouri, and Nashville, Tennessee.

Five of the weekend routes will go to Florida cities, including three to Miami from Baltimore; Buffalo, New York; and Cincinnati, Ohio. With an expectation that fans of the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles will travel to watch the team play, American has scheduled added flights on three routes from its Philadelphia International Airport hub—to GRB, Minneapolis and Tampa—and the carrier will use a larger aircraft than usual on two more weekends for flights to Buffalo and Kansas City, where the Eagles will play a Super Bowl rematch against the hometown Chiefs on Sept. 14.

Los Angeles, home of the Chargers and Rams, will have three flights added from Detroit, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. New Orleans will see added flights from San Francisco and Boston.

While 23 of the NFL domestic routes will see one added flight, American will add two flights on Saturday Nov. 1 between its Charlotte hub and GRB, with Monday returns, for the Nov. 2 tilt between the Carolina Panthers and Packers.

As well as the three games for which American has scheduled added flights to GRB, the airline said it will conduct “additional flights throughout the fall” on more routes to Green Bay for Packers games. The Packers play in 67-year-old Lambeau Field, considered the NFL’s most historic stadium, attracting fans wanting to experience the football shrine.

Highlights of the college football schedule include Friday-Sunday roundtrips for seven weekends between Sept. 12 and Nov. 23 from both New York LaGuardia and DCA to South Bend, Indiana, for University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish games.

American said the upcoming season will mark its “largest-ever fall football schedule.”