Does American Airlines support Israel?

Codeshare partnership with Israel's flag carrier El Al, begun February 2008: American's AA code went on El Al's Tel Aviv flights from New York-JFK, Los Angeles, Miami and Newark and from European gateways, with El Al's LY code on American domestic flights. The AAdvantage frequent-flyer tie was dropped on 1 November 2014, but the codeshare itself continued and was expanded on 18 December 2014 to eight El Al routes from Tel Aviv to Europe. El Al launched a new codeshare with Delta around the start of 2024, and the American tie-up appears to have lapsed around the same period; American was in any case not flying its own aircraft to Tel Aviv again until 2027 (see below). This was a commercial airline agreement, now concluded.

Entered the Israel market with its own aircraft in 2021: daily New York-JFK–Tel Aviv service launched 6 May 2021 and 4x-weekly Miami–Tel Aviv from June 2021 (a planned Dallas/Fort Worth–Tel Aviv route was cancelled in May 2022 before launching, and the Miami route was later cut). American suspended all Tel Aviv service after the 7 October 2023 attacks and has repeatedly postponed its return — a planned March 2026 JFK restart was pushed to January 2027 amid the 2026 escalation — making it the last of the big three US carriers to come back to Israel.