PGBET Since 2018, American Airlines has made drastic modifications to its overseas international network. American Airlines wins coveted route to Tokyo's close-in airport Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine The Dallas Morning News. In October 2015, American announced that it would introduce a new "no-frills fare." This is mainly an effort to compete with low-cost carriers, such as JetBlue or Spirit Airlines. A mid-2020 partnership with JetBlue called the Northeast Alliance, included coordinating direct flights for Boston and New York City. The only remaining route from the Air California and Reno Air purchases is from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Prior to these cuts, American had stopped flying to Nagoya and Delhi in 2005 and 2014 respectively for similar reasons, in which both routes were also operated exclusively from the Chicago hub. AMR was reportedly considering merger proposals involving US Airways, JetBlue, Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, and Virgin America.|How Big are ADX Cells?