# American Airlines

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/american-airlines/  
**Website:** https://www.aa.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 29.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 61.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 10.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **American Airlines Bookings API** — Booking management operations
- **American Airlines Flights API** — Flight information and status operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **American Airlines Agentic Access** — 4 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **American Airlines Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **American Airlines Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (4)

- **Flight Search and Booking** — Travel agencies and booking platforms integrate flight availability, pricing, and reservation APIs to offer American Airlines flights.
- **Flight Status Tracking** — Applications query real-time flight status, departure, arrival, and delay information for American Airlines flights.
- **Internal Developer Tooling** — American Airlines engineering teams use Runway to self-service infrastructure, register APIs in the service catalog, and manage deployments.
- **Hackathon and Innovation** — Open-source Hangar tool enables hackathon management for tech innovation events sponsored by or affiliated with American Airlines.

## Tags

Airlines, Aviation, Flights, Travel, Booking, Developer Experience, Fortune 100

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/american-airlines/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.