American Airlines Adds Five New Routes to Cancun and Punta Cana for Winter 2025/26
- Joe Breitfeller
- Mar 26
- 2 min read
American Airlines will offer five new routes to Cancun, Mexico and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic for winter 2025/26. The carrier will also resume service to Kona, Hawaii, and extend summer seasonal service on key European routes.
On Wednesday (March 26, 2025), American Airlines announced the addition of five new routes to Cancun, Mexico (CUN) and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (PUJ), while expanding service on routes to Hawaii, South America and Europe. This winter, American will operate over 270 peak daily departures to popular beach destinations across Mexico, the Caribbean and Latin America from the U.S., more than any other airline.
In Wednesday’s announcement, American Airlines’ SVP – Network Planning, Brian Znotins, said,
“American’s comprehensive global network is designed to give customers more access to the destinations they want to visit. Together with new routes, more flights on popular routes and extended seasons to major destinations, American’s schedule is designed for travelers to get away to sun, sand and more next winter.”
From November 8, 2025, American will become the first airline to launch international service from the state of Oklahoma with new service between Oklahoma City (OKC) and Cancun, Mexico (CUN). American will offer more than 40 peak-day departures to Cancun from 19 destinations starting in November. Additionally, the carrier will add four new routes to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (PUJ) from December 6th. In total, American will operate over 20 peak-day departures to 11 U.S destinations from PUJ.
American will also expand service from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) to Hawaii, with resumed service to Kona (KOA) and expanded service to Kahului (OGG), complementing recently announced winter service between Chicago (ORD) and Honolulu (HNL). For winter 2025/26, the carrier will offer 15 daily flights between the continental U.S. and Hawaii.
Currently, American offers more daily flights between the U.S. and South America than any other airline, and will grow their presence in popular vacation destinations for the holiday season. Between December and January, the carrier will operate up to flour daily flights between Miami (MIA), And Buenos Aires, Argentina (EZE), the most frequencies ever. Additionally, American will offer up to 10 weekly flights between DFW and Sao Paulo (GRU), and a total of 10 daily flights to Brazil, more than any other airline.
As previously mentioned, American is also extending summer seasonal service on select routes to Europe this winter, including Athens, Greece (ATH), Barcelona, Spain (BCN), and Dublin, Ireland (DUB).
American Airlines’ purpose is To Care for People on Life’s Journey®. The carrier offers thousands of daily flights to over 350 destinations in more than 60 countries. American is also a founding member of the oneworld global alliance whose member airlines serve over 900 destinations worldwide. Shares in the American Airlines Group, Inc., trade on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol AAL and the company’s stock is included in the S&P 500.
Source: American Airlines
