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 Travel category, currently rated 4.8★ across 1,141,154 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 Travel 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
$1.6M
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$1.7M – $2.6M
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$2.0M – $3.8M
per month
BIG tierFREE
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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 · 176K ratings · 4.8★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$120K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $90K – $160K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~10 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 (295 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Travel complexity ×1.30 | +$27K |
Total estimate
$120K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$225K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $175K – $300K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~1.9× build cost (break-even+)
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% |
| ⭐ Mature user base (1M+ ratings) | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
125.5M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
12.5M
Daily active
1.9M
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
| 📲 Travel engagement | ~110 installs / rating |
| 🔁 Travel D30 retention | 10% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.15 |
DAU / MAU
15% sticky
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How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$1.6M/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+2.5% MoM · BIG tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$1.6M – $2.1M
12 months
$1.7M – $2.6M
24 months
$2.0M – $3.8M
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 · 49/100BIG TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)below benchmarksGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
5.1
Product Quality
8.0
Revenue Strength
6.2
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
7.7
- 💰 Revenue: Healthy — $640K - $3520K/mo · BIG tier · medium-low confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.76★ across 1,074,492 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: Moderate — rating drift -0.58 ★ (recent 50 vs lifetime).
🎯 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 = $28.8M-$51.2M.
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 (1,141,154 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 · v2026.15
Destination images now appear throughout your trip to help you follow your journey at a glance.
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
- Travel
- 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 Travel
- 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.
✨AI Revenue EstimateCONFIDENCE: LOW
The iOS app 'American Airlines' generates negligible direct revenue from in-app purchases, with Sensor Tower estimating less than $5,000 in monthly revenue. The app primarily serves as a tool for booking flights, managing reservations, and facilitating ancillary services, contributing indirectly to American Airlines' overall revenue.
Sources mentioned: Sensor Tower, American Airlines
⭐Recent App Store Reviews49 latest · avg 4.18★ · 73.5% 5★ · 14.3% 1★
5★36 (73%)
4★2 (4%)
3★2 (4%)
2★2 (4%)
1★7 (14%)
+33,689 ratings/week
Praise: great ×11 love ×7 best ×6 excellent ×1 fantastic ×1Complaints: broken ×2 terrible ×2 worst ×1 crash ×1
Top positive
★★★★★ Great app !!
Fast and easy ❤️…
★★★★★ Great!!!
Everything is great except the ai isn’t the best…
Top negative
★☆☆☆☆ Always broken
Never works. Trash app.…
★☆☆☆☆ Very frustrating update that isn’t supported by anything other than iOS 18+
Thank you American your latest update has rendered my iPad Pro and iPhone useless for the Mobil app. Both devices are on iOS 17.x releases and do not support 18.x. In order to leverage the AA app I must sink a couple grand into new device…
📈Ratings growth1,141,154 ratings+27% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (11 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 Timeline3 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 →💾 295 MB🔞 4+📱 iOS 18.0+🔖 v2026.15🔄 updated 0d ago🌐 EN📂 Travel💰 Paid
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What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
10 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 →
2026-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.18 → 4.75 (improved 1.57★)
2026-05
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-03
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.18 → 4.40 (improved 1.22★)
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2026-01
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
2025-12
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
2025-12
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
2025-12
⭐
Rating ↓ 5.00 → 3.50 (dropped 1.50★)
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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
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 708 reviews across 9 markets● 59% positive · ● 15% neutral · ● 26% negative · Rating drift: -0.58★ (declining — recent 50: 4.18★ vs lifetime: 4.76★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Sentiment by country (−1 to +1)
🇺🇸 US
+0.43
🇬🇧 GB
+0.18
🇧🇷 BR
+0.08
🇦🇺 AU
+0.04
🇮🇳 IN
+0.01
🇨🇦 CA
-0.03
🇫🇷 FR
-0.11
🇯🇵 JP
-0.14
🇩🇪 DE
-0.21
Top praise themes
user friendly ×24 easy navigate ×22 customer service ×13 easy easy ×11 boarding pass ×11 boarding passes ×10 quick easy ×4 flight updates ×4
Top complaint themes
customer service ×12 boarding pass ×11 worst airline ×8 doesn work ×7 boarding passes ×7 credit card ×6 updated click ×6 click update ×6
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Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.70535★ | 1,327 | 4.70535★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 4.82022★ | 5,579 | 4.82022★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 4.66129★ | 5,887 | 4.66129★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 4.49687★ | 958 | 4.49687★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.55469★ | 640 | 4.55469★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 4.64128★ | 4,006 | 4.64128★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.82258★ | 868 | 4.82258★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.63542★ | 1,056 | 4.63542★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.76384★ | 1,122,996 | 4.76384★ 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: 1,141,154 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.
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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.