American Airlines plans to add more premium seats, seatback screens and Starlink internet as part of a major narrowbody fleet upgrade.

American Airlines is upgrading its narrowbody fleet with seatback screens, more premium seating, and free high-speed Wi-Fi, set to roll out on Airbus and Boeing planes by the early 2030s.

No injuries were reported, the airline said, and the plane was taken out of service for inspection following the Monday, Aug. 17 incident

A potential disaster was averted Friday when a Phoenix air traffic controller recognized two American Airlines jets mistakenly were flying the same flight number and acted quickly to avoid confusion and keep them a safe distance apart.

Emergency vehicles were seen surrounding an American Airlines jet on the tarmac at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Monday afternoon.

An air traffic controller noticed that two planes — one departing, one landing — were both flight 2482. He acted quickly to avoid confusion.

A US aviation safety expert said the duplicate flight number was likely the result of an error at the airline's dispatch centre.

A US air traffic controller narrowly avoided a potentially dangerous situation when two American Airlines planes with the same call sign were in the same airspace at the same time, US media reported