American Airlines cuts more than 50k flights from summer schedule

Note that American averages 5500 DAILY departures in a Summer season. The headline 50k cuts are roughly a 12 percent to 15 percent cut

what i may find significant includes the number of flight hours . reduced, the cities that lose the most flights, the number of duplications cut Gives me a real picture of what this means.

Lufthansa did a similar thing.

Better to cut flights well in advance to right-size the schedule, than to inconvenience passengers by canceling scheduled flights shortly before departure. Schedulers are probably looking at advance bookings, and at predicted crew and aircraft availability, to inform their decisions.