American Airlines
88
Quality Score
Excellent
American Airlines
High confidence
✍️ bumetric analysis
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American Airlines is an iOS app from American Airlines in the News category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,233,034 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 88: Excellent (strong product-market fit). For a News app, that means strong product-market fit. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$700K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$741K – $1141K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$886K – $1645K
per month
BIG tier
💡 Grow this revenue
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- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
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Rating
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Reviews
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Forecast Revenue / mo
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Snapshots tracked
0
since first record
🤖Also on Android
$2.8K/mo · 202K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$110K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $80K – $150K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~9 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (303 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ News complexity ×1.20 | +$18K |
Total estimate
$110K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~2.0× return on build cost
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| ⭐ ★ rating ≥ 4.7 (premium) | +15% |
| 🏷 News category multiple | -5% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
147.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
22.0M
Daily active
9.9M
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 News engagement | ~120 installs / rating |
| 🔁 News D30 retention | 15% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
45% sticky
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$700K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$690K – $933K
12 months
$741K – $1.1M
24 months
$886K – $1.6M
Compound growth at +2.5% MoM (tier baseline for BIG). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±15% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Concerning · 54/100BIG TIERbelow benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
9.5
Revenue Strength
5.8
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $280K - $1540K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.77★ across 1,202,607 reviews — exceptional (top 1% in category).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $12.6M-$22.4M.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 11 of 11 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| High install base (1,233,034 ratings)METRIC | +$12,000 | |
| Excellent rating (4.8★)METRIC | +$2,200 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (15y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v2026.18
Use the airport guide to make your connection easier. Navigate to your gate, find nearby amenities like lounges and food, view flight details and track your bags — all in one place.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- American Airlines
- Developer
- American Airlines
- Bundle ID
- com.aa.AmericanAirlines
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- News
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- www.aa.com
- Tagline
- Not found
- Description
- Not found
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Not found
Revenue
- Verified revenue / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- ML model estimate / mo
- $12.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- Outside top 100 in US News
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth1,233,034 ratings+12% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (20 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (36 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Geographic ReachNot ranked
This app is currently outside the top 100 grossing in all 9 countries we monitor (US, UK, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN). Niche or new apps often launch this way — popularity rankings appear once daily revenue clears the regional threshold.
🚀Version Release Timeline6 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
With the American Airlines app, you’re covered with the information you need exactly when you need it. Curious about traffic to the airport? Need a mobile boarding pass? Wondering where the closest Admirals Club® lounge is? All of this info and more is available at your fingertips.
- Live Activities: Track your flight in real-time right from your Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and your Apple Watch's Smart Stack.
- Lock Screen & Home Screen widgets: See your next trip's details with our dynamic widgets.… View full description on the official store →
- Live Activities: Track your flight in real-time right from your Lock Screen, Dynamic Island and your Apple Watch's Smart Stack.
- Lock Screen & Home Screen widgets: See your next trip's details with our dynamic widgets.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 303 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v2026.18🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 News💰 Paid
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
15 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.17 → v2026.18
→ 30 days after: reviews +45,414 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.16 → v2026.17
→ 30 days after: reviews +71,373 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.15 → v2026.16
→ 30 days after: reviews +101,884 medium · co-occurring
2026-06
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.14 → v2026.15
→ 30 days after: reviews +140,743 high confidence
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v2026.13 → v2026.14
→ 30 days after: reviews +160,014 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +137,939 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.18 → 4.75 (improved 1.57★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +137,939 medium · co-occurring
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.18 → 4.40 (improved 1.22★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.1K/mo · rating +0.30★ · reviews +110 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.1K/mo · rating +0.30★ · reviews +110 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.5K/mo · rating +0.30★ · reviews +150 high confidence
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.5K/mo · rating +0.43★ · reviews +156 high confidence
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.0K/mo · rating −2.92★ · reviews +132 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$3.0K/mo · rating −2.92★ · reviews +132 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.9K/mo · rating −2.92★ · reviews +129 medium · co-occurring
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: revenue +$2.9K/mo · rating −2.92★ · reviews +129 medium · co-occurring
🔎
ASO Keyword Positions
BEST RANK #31Ranked for 1 App Store search query in our last keyword sweep. Lower position = closer to the top.
flight tracker·#31🇺🇸
Last sweep: 2026-05-19 · iTunes Search API
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.71225★ | 1,477 | 4.71225★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82792★ | 6,276 | 4.82792★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.67391★ | 6,446 | 4.67391★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.51018★ | 1,031 | 4.51018★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.57917★ | 701 | 4.57917★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.66206★ | 4,486 | 4.66206★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.81809★ | 973 | 4.81809★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.63605★ | 1,198 | 4.63605★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.77267★ | 1,224,880 | 4.77267★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for American Airlines: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 1,233,034 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
4 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does American Airlines make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, American Airlines earns approximately $12K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
What apps are like American Airlines?▴
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Who makes American Airlines?▴
American Airlines is published by American Airlines on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is American Airlines's BU Score?▴
American Airlines has a BU Score of 88/100 (Excellent). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.