{"id":192152,"date":"2025-03-28T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-co-branded-credit-cards\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:00:19","slug":"could-american-airlines-2-co-branded-credit-card-lines-be-its-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=192152","title":{"rendered":"Could American Airlines&#8217; 2 Co-Branded Credit Card Lines Be Its Achilles Heel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span> has long lagged behind its two principal competitors, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines, both in terms of profitability and perceived service quality. There has been a consistent decade-long stretch in which American Airlines has continued to fall behind these two competitors. The airline\u2019s stock price has not remotely recovered in the same manner as Delta&#8217;s and American\u2019s, leaving industry investors in particularly difficult positions. Furthermore, the airline has routinely lost market share to these two principal competitors in many key competitive markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier has a bizarre credit card offering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,636,13240,1003,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-commercial-aviation","category-legacy-carriers","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192153,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192152\/revisions\/192153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}