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r/americanairlinesNSFW

American Airlines sub. This is the subreddit devoted to American Airlines. We are not affiliated with the airline Founded 2013 Β· 155.3K members

155K members. The best post we have captured here reached 30.1K upvotes, which works out to 194 per 1,000 members.

194peak upvotes per 1,000 members
155Kmembers
30.1Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
903posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

52% 23% 16%
Text 52% Question 23% Image 16% Gallery 5% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

I Need Help! 383 General Airline Discussion 218 Trip Reports & Insights 154 AA News & Updates 46 Points - Question 46 Humor 44 Points - Brag 12

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

It finally happened to me 🀣

↑ 30.1K πŸ’¬ 1.9K text 2026

Airlines are now not required to provide hotel accommodation, meal vouchers or ground transportation starting October 19th

↑ 20.4K πŸ’¬ 37 link 2026

New one for me, got paged before boarding

↑ 2K πŸ’¬ 435 text 2026

Generous gentleman

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 35 text 2026

[PHL] [SEA] PSA: No spraying anything aerosolized on a plane, ever.

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 174 text 2026

Voucher offer on plane-got off and was treated like a fibber/idiot

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 142 text 2026

Can't take photos on flight

↑ 1.3K πŸ’¬ 351 text 2026

Don’t ask some pilots for cards I guess

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 370 text 2026

Flight attendants loudly chewed me out for several minutes and called me a liar, what should I do if anything?

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 107 question 2026

Donna. Flight attendant from flight AA2179

↑ 863 πŸ’¬ 20 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/americanairlines, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/americanairlines?
r/americanairlines ("American Airlines sub") describes itself this way: This is the subreddit devoted to American Airlines. We are not affiliated with the airline. It was founded in 2013 and has 155.3K members.
How many members does r/americanairlines have?
r/americanairlines has about 155K members. ViralHunt has tracked 903 of its posts; the biggest reached 30.1K upvotes, which is 194 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/americanairlines?
"It finally happened to me 🀣" reached 30.1K upvotes and 1.9K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/americanairlines.
What subreddits are similar to r/americanairlines?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/americanairlines?
Of the posts we hold, 52% are text posts and 23% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/americanairlines?
Across 903 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (4.3K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (4.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (744 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/americanairlines?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/americanairlines has 461 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 293 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/americanairlines, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.