Originally Posted by
Maninthebar
The cynic in me thinks that AA are seeking to reduce loss-making flights AND claim compensation from Boeing.
I tend to agree - with the additional aspect that they don't have flight crew for those flights as well. American has been cancelling domestic flights due to lack of flight crews.
Most of the US based carriers are running into flight crew issues - some may remember that Delta and others were predicting a pilot shortage a few years ago (before COVID cutbacks) as large numbers of pilots reached the 65 year old mandatory retirement. COVID made it even worse when some older (but well less than 65) pilots chose to retire to help the operators avoid pilot layoffs.
I was in LAX a few days ago. Busy, but international traffic was still lacking.