(Reuters) -American Airlines forecast 2025 profit below Wall Street expectations on Thursday, hurt by an uptick in jet fuel prices and efforts to fix a sales-strategy misstep that drove away corporate travelers. Shares of the carrier dropped 6% in premarket trade.

American Airlines last year said it would reverse a business-travel sales strategy that backfired. The airline signed a new credit card deal with Citi late last year. American Airlines reported a jump in fourth-quarter profits with results coming in ahead of analysts' expectations,

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