American joined United in removing the Boeing 737 Max from its schedules until December as the planes' worldwide grounding approaches the six-month mark.
The planes have been grounded since mid-March when regulators ordered airlines to stop flying passengers with them after two fatal crashes within five months of one another.
American expects to cancel about 140 flights a day in November through Dec. 3, higher than the 115 it expects in the two months leading up to Nov. 3, the date it previously expected the planes to return to its schedules. Cancellations due to the Max grounding, now in its sixth month, have been rising because airlines had expected to have additional planes delivered.
Boeing suspended deliveries of new Max planes after the second crash but is still producing them, albeit at a
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