American is the most NDC-committed U.S. carrier, with its best third-party content offered only through NDC connections since 2023, but every programmatic door — shopping, fares, seats, booking and servicing — is partner-gated through the three major GDSs and travel technology providers, with no public developer API. An agent reaches American only inside a retailer or GDS relationship provisioned through the NDC program documented at NDC.aa.com and SalesLink.
Status · Collecting demand · Registry opened November 1, 2026
Five intents, checked against American Airlines' public sources on November 1, 2026.
| Intent | State | The open route | Source | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menu / browse | PARTNER-GATED | American NDC via the three major GDSs and travel technology providers (program documented at NDC.aa.com / SalesLink) — American's official agency reference: since April 3, 2023 its best third-party public channel content is offered only through NDC connections, delivered via the three major GDSs and several travel tech providers. No public developer portal/self-serve signup found; access requires a retailer/GDS relationship. | Source — www.saleslink.aa.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Prices | PARTNER-GATED | American NDC via GDS/tech providers; Duffel Direct Connect — All fares are filed in the public tariff and viewable in all channels, but NDC-only fares require an NDC connection to book/ticket (official SalesLink guidance). Duffel lists American Airlines under Direct Connect airlines, corroborating aggregator reach, but the sanctioned direct door is the gated NDC program. | Source — www.saleslink.aa.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Inventory | PARTNER-GATED | American NDC via GDS/tech providers — NDC shopping includes centralized access to American's comprehensive seat map and seat selection at shopping time, per the official agency reference — delivered only through provisioned NDC connections. | Source — www.saleslink.aa.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Ordering | PARTNER-GATED | American NDC via GDS/tech providers (Amadeus full integration; Expedia direct NDC connection) — American was the first U.S. airline to integrate NDC with a GDS (Amadeus, incl. ancillaries and elevated offers like Main Plus) and later added a direct NDC connection for Expedia Group — all partnership-based; no open booking API. | Source — news.aa.com | 2026-11-01 |
| Tracking | PARTNER-GATED | American NDC servicing (automated involuntary schedule-change notification to retailers); flight status human-only on aa.com/app — For booked orders, NDC partners get automated schedule-change support/notification per the official agency reference. Standalone flight status is a human aa.com/app feature (aa.com flight status page); American also licenses status data to sealed 'Official Source' partners (FlightStats/OAG), but no public status API was verified. | Source — www.saleslink.aa.com | 2026-11-01 |
Agent-native surfaces at American Airlines: official MCP server — none found; llms.txt — none published; API catalog (RFC 9727) — not verified. Automated access: Moderate: aa.com/robots.txt (HTTP 200) disallows many site sections (advantage, business/agency programs, promo, utility paths) but no AI-crawler-specific rules were seen; /llms.txt returned 404 and /.well-known/api-catalog returned 403 (WAF-blocked, so catalog presence is unverified); no public automation/API terms found (evidence).
One page per task an agent might attempt at American Airlines — the door-state for that task alone, and what fits instead.
| Task | State | The page |
|---|---|---|
| Menu / browse | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent search American Airlines flights? |
| Prices | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent check American Airlines flight prices? |
| Inventory | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent check seat availability on American Airlines? |
| Ordering | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent book a flight on American Airlines? |
| Tracking | PARTNER-GATED | Can an AI agent check American Airlines flight status? |
If you came to do something at American Airlines and the door was closed, say so here — and take the receipt with you.
POST your intent — what you were trying to do, and for which of the five intents — to the intent endpoint. You receive: a receipt (a ticket id confirming the registration), your queue position for that intent at American Airlines, the current door-state document, and any alternatives the Options Registry can offer — another business whose door is open for the same need. If nothing fits, the answer is demand logged: your intent joins the aggregate count. The receipt also carries a notify token: poll the notify endpoint and you will learn when this door-state changes — a new API, a changed gate, a converted Outpost.
This Outpost measures agent demand at your wall.
Every intent registered here is an agent that arrived at American Airlines with a task — something to browse, a price to check, an order to place, a delivery to follow — and could not complete it through a sanctioned agent door. That demand is currently invisible to you: blocked attempts never become sessions. The registry counts it, categorizes it by intent, and timestamps it, so the size of the agent channel you are not serving is a number rather than a guess.
Converting this Outpost into American Airlines's official agent gateway — a real door for agents, operated by Agent Outposts under your terms — is a conversation with Agent Outposts. Palo Alto, California.
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