{"id":334104,"date":"2025-12-21T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/connecting-easier-american-airlines-expands-flight-hold-more-airports\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:00:17","slug":"connecting-made-easier-american-airlines-expands-flight-hold-program-to-more-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=334104","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Made Easier: American Airlines Expands Flight Hold Program To More Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based legacy carrier <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> is currently in the process of scaling up its flight hold capabilities, which are designed to rescue passengers who are attempting to make a short flight connection without throwing the entire operation off schedule. The airline says that its system can briefly delay certain departures so that late-arriving passengers are able to board, but only when the entire network is able to absorb such a pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program was originally tested at Dallas\/Fort Worth International.<\/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":[396,636,682,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines","category-flight","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334104","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=334104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334105,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334104\/revisions\/334105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}