American Airlines CEO Robert Isom speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, US, in December 2025. With both Charlotte and Dallas, its two largest hubs, in Fern’s bullseye, American could barely move its crews, let alone its passengers. “This is not solely about one weekend,” the pilots wrote. Veteran travel blogger Joe Brancatelli wrote late Wednesday that Fern caused about 23,300 cancellations, including about 10,000 by American. “Every travel crisis has an epically bad performer and this one’s villain is American Airlines,” he said.