When would American cancel flight?

[Keacc]

On May 27,2022, we are supposed to fly to London. We then continue Edinburgh, for a 14 day tour of Scotland and Ireland. Our flight to London is a 787. My wife and I are the only 2 seats in Business Class. There are only a total of 27 seats blocked on the flight. Would American cancel this flight? If so, when? There are 2 later flights that day and one flight has less seats blocked, and the other has only 34 seats blocked. Would they move us to one of the later flights?

 

[spiders]

Lots of different things are possible and it’s impossible to say with any degree of certainty what will happen. Other things to consider…the first flight is often important to business travelers (albeit given the times, maybe there aren’t many) since that will arrive before the day starts in Europe. Heathrow is also slot restricted and while some rules have been relaxed, the overall concept of use or lose remains and the UK has established 70% is the requirement for this summer.

Plus, May is still kinda far out. As the UK relaxes restrictions and Omicron continues to fall, I think we’re going to see a very strong domestic market and a recovering international one. Only time will tell, though.