Job Description

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

This role is ideal for candidates with commercial airline experience, especially those familiar with Revenue Management, Network Planning, Pricing, Codeshare/Interline, Sales, Loyalty, or Alliances. You will help manage a portfolio of American’s global airline partners, coordinating commercial, operational, regulatory, and financial workstreams that directly influence AA’s network, customer offering, and revenue performance. This is a highly cross‑functional role with meaningful exposure to partner airlines and leaders across AA.

What you'll do

• Serve as the primary day‑to‑day contact for partner airlines, handling communication, resolving issues, and keeping partnership activity on track
• Build strong, trust‑based relationships with partner airlines and AA teams, using collaboration and influence to keep stakeholders aligned and initiatives moving forward
• Bring structure and organization to partnership workstreams through clear project management practices, helping teams stay coordinated
• Support and lead components of Interline, Codeshare, Frequent Flyer (FFP), and rate negotiations, from drafting through execution
• Coordinate codeshare regulatory filings in partnership with Government Affairs and Legal, ensuring compliance with all required authorities
• Analyze commercial and operational performance, including revenue contribution, codeshare performance, and competitive trends to identify opportunities for improvement
• Manage budgets and invoice approvals for assigned partners
• Prepare executive level briefing materials, including CEO and senior leadership updates
• Develop dashboards and data visualizations to monitor partner performance, identify trends, and support commercial decision‑making
• Work closely with Network Planning, Revenue Management, Sales, AAdvantage, Regulatory, Legal, Operations, and partner airlines to execute partnership initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement, issue resolution, and strategic alignment across all partnership activities

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure complex problems and generate creative solutions

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• MBA degree
• Commercial airline experience strongly preferred (RM, Pricing, Network, Sales, Loyalty, Alliances, or related areas)
• Understanding of airline partnerships, codeshare, interline or loyalty structures
• Strong relationship building and influence skills across diverse internal and external teams
• Excellent project management and cross‑functional coordination capabilities
• Contract negotiation, decision support and financial oversight
• Clear, concise communication skills, including with senior leadership

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Strong quantitative, writing and presentation development abilities
• Familiarity with airline datasets (DDS, Diio, MIDT, T100)
• Experience using SQL and Tableau or similar tools
• Ability to build consensus and work collaboratively across teams with different perspective

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.