American adds two Midwest routes from Chicago O'Hare hub

American Airlines is adding two Midwestern routes to its Chicago O’Hare hub. Three daily round-trip flights to Lansing, Mich., will begin Aug. 23 while two daily round-trip flights to Akron-Canton start Oct. 6. American’s American Eagle affiliates will fly both routes with 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145 regional jets. American already flies from CAK to four other destinations: Charlotte, New York LaGuardia, Philadelphia and Washington Reagan National. With the new Chicago flights, American will become the top carrier at CAK in terms of daily flights (13), though Delta will still fly with an overall higher seat count there, CAK spokeswoman Kristie Van Auken said. The new American flights also offer something of a rebound for CAK, which lost several Southwest routes in 2015. Southwest now flies only to Atlanta -- and seasonally to Orlando -- from Akron-Canton. But those loses have been partially offset by new American flights to New York – and now Chicago – as well as by new Allegiant routes to Florida.<br/>