Government Shutdown Costs American Airlines $325M In Q4

American Airlines has just released its fourth-quarter and full-year financial results for 2025, with the government shutdown having cost the Fort Worth-based US ‘big three’ legacy carrier andoneworld founding member hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue. Despite this hiccup, strong performance elsewhere meant that, overall, both the fourth quarter of 2025 and the year as a whole went down in history as record-breaking periods.