American Airlines (AAL) Stock News Today: Analyst Upgrades, Loyalty Changes, and What Could Drive American Airlines Group Into 2026
American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) is heading into the year-end travel crush with its stock still behaving like… an airline: highly sensitive to sentiment, fuel prices, and any whiff of operational or legal turbulence. On December 23, 2025, AAL shares were trading around the mid-$16 range in early U.S. trading, after a strong late-November-to-December run that has put the airline back on a lot more screens than it’s been on for much of the year. Investing.com What’s changed isn’t one single headline. It’s a bundle: a premium “catch-up” strategy, shifting loyalty economics, a burst of analyst activity that’s re-framed