AMERICAN WILL DISCONTINUE LOS ANGELES-PARIS AND CHICAGO-ROME SERVICE ON NOV. 1, ADJUSTING TO MARKET CONDITIONS

Adjusting to changing economic conditions, American Airlines has announced that it will discontinue daily nonstop service on its Los Angeles-Paris and Chicago-Rome routes, effective Nov. 1. American serves both routes with 190-seat Boeing 767-300 aircraft.

American noted that it will continue to provide daily nonstop service to Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport from Boston, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, New York’s Kennedy Airport and Miami, as well as from San Jose, Calif., where the airline launched Paris service on April 1. The airline will be able to provide Los Angeles area passengers easy connections to Paris from many of those other U.S. gateways.

Those bound for Rome will be able to get there on American through convenient connecting services with British Airways at London, Swissair at Zurich and Sabena at Brussels. American operates nonstop to Brussels from Chicago, nonstop to Zurich from Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth, and nonstop to London from eight U.S. gateways – JFK, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Newark, Los Angeles, Boston and Raleigh-Durham.

Despite the changes announced today, American’s broader strategy is to strengthen and expand its international route network. This year alone, the airline has begun service between San Jose and Taipei, San Jose and Paris, Miami and Maracaibo, and Los Angeles and Los Cabos in Mexico, and by

November will have introduced the Boeing 777, its newest and largest jet, on nine additional international routes during 2001.

Overall, American on Nov. 1 will remain one of the largest U.S. carriers in the transAtlantic marketplace, offering 238 flights a week between nine U.S. gateways and 11 destinations in Europe.