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r/americanairlines

American Airlines sub. This is the subreddit devoted to American Airlines. We are not affiliated with the airline Founded 2013 Β· 151.3K members

151.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 29.9K upvotes, which works out to 198 per 1,000 members.

198peak upvotes per 1,000 members
151.3Kmembers
29.9Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
304posts 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.

56% 22% 13%
Text 56% Question 22% Image 13% Gallery 6% Link 3% Video 1%

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! 126 General Airline Discussion 74 Trip Reports & Insights 59 Points - Question 16 AA News & Updates 13 Humor 12 Points - Brag 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

It finally happened to me 🀣

↑ 29.9K πŸ’¬ 1.9K text 2026

Generous gentleman

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 35 text 2026

How to sit down

↑ 768 πŸ’¬ 144 text 2026

[CLT][DFW]: Flight attendant shouted β€œWake Up”

↑ 459 πŸ’¬ 107 text 2026

LHR-DFW: AA Downgraded Me from Flagship First to….

↑ 405 πŸ’¬ 54 gallery 2026

Woman arrested for undressing, performing indecent acts on American Airlines flight to Miami

↑ 358 πŸ’¬ 214 link 2026

Plane Etiquette / Sociological Question

↑ 354 πŸ’¬ 175 text 2026

I know exactly where my bag is. American won’t go get it.

↑ 290 πŸ’¬ 54 image 2026

A321XLR first flight

↑ 273 πŸ’¬ 33 gallery 2026

Medical emergency from SFO to MIA

↑ 269 πŸ’¬ 195 text 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 151.3K members.
How many members does r/americanairlines have?
r/americanairlines has about 151.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 304 of its posts; the biggest reached 29.9K upvotes, which is 198 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/americanairlines?
"It finally happened to me 🀣" reached 29.9K 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/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/americanairlines?
Of the posts we hold, 56% are text posts and 22% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/americanairlines?
Across 304 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 11:00 UTC (613 avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (188 avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (179 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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 139 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 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.