The online travel website has seen better quarters, with higher taxes, increased spending on technology and content, and a push and pull between airlines and globaldistributionsystems that took a toll in the last quarter of 2010.
The Fort-Worth based airline filed a lawsuit in Texas State court in Tarrant County Jan. 10 against Sabre, the travel network that operates one of the globaldistributionsystems (GDS) that American has claimed is a costly way to continue doing business.