American Airlines
American Airlines is one of the world's largest airlines, operating an extensive domestic and international route network. The company's Runway developer experience platform, built on Spotify's Backstage, provides internal developer tooling and API management for engineering teams. American Airlines exposes flight data, status, and booking capabilities through its developer portal, and maintains an active open-source presence via the AmericanAirlines GitHub organization.
APIs
American Airlines Runway Developer API
Runway is American Airlines' developer experience platform providing APIs for flight operations, booking, scheduling, and travel services. Built on Spotify's Backstage platform,...
Capabilities
American Airlines Flight Operations
Unified workflow for travel applications and agents accessing American Airlines flight data, status, and booking capabilities. Serves travel technology teams and booking platfor...
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Internal developer platform built on Spotify's Backstage providing centralized API management, service catalog, and self-service infrastructure tooling for engineering teams.
APIs for querying flight schedules, routes, status information, and operational data across American Airlines' domestic and international network.
APIs supporting flight search, booking, reservation management, and passenger services integration for travel applications.
Runway provides integrated API management with security, authentication toggles, and corporate authentication capabilities for development teams.
Kong-based service mesh enabling reliable microservices communication and traffic management across the American Airlines platform.
American Airlines maintains open-source tools including Flight Engine (mock flight data API), Hangar (hackathon management), and Backstage plugins via the AmericanAirlines GitHub organization.
Use Cases
Travel agencies and booking platforms integrate flight availability, pricing, and reservation APIs to offer American Airlines flights.
Applications query real-time flight status, departure, arrival, and delay information for American Airlines flights.
American Airlines engineering teams use Runway to self-service infrastructure, register APIs in the service catalog, and manage deployments.
Open-source Hangar tool enables hackathon management for tech innovation events sponsored by or affiliated with American Airlines.
Integrations
Runway developer portal is built on Spotify's Backstage platform for internal developer experience and service catalog management.
American Airlines uses Kong's Kuma service mesh for microservices networking and API gateway capabilities.
Integration with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management in build pipelines via open-source vault-action GitHub Action.
Python API client for Dynatrace integration maintained in the AmericanAirlines GitHub organization.