{"id":367164,"date":"2026-07-09T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367164\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:50:08","slug":"american-airlines-flies-dallas-cowboys-to-brazil-for-historic-nfl-game-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367164\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines flies Dallas Cowboys to Brazil for historic NFL game \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Airlines is moving one of its largest aircraft to North Texas in September so it can charter a flight for \u201cAmerica\u2019s Team\u201d to a major coastal city in South America. <\/p>\n<p>American, which operates its central hub at DFW International Airport, will use one of its 304-seat Boeing 777-300ER jets to shuttle the Dallas Cowboys to Rio de Janeiro for its Week 3 game against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 27. The game, which will be played at Maracan\u00e3 Stadium, will be the NFL game played in the Brazilian city. <\/p>\n<p>The airline confirmed the charter flight in a statement to The Dallas Morning News, saying the operation is \u201cpart of American Airlines\u2019 decades-long commitment as the charter airline of the Dallas Cowboys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 777-300ER, frequently referred to as the 77W, will depart for DFW from John F. Kennedy International Airport at 4:15 p.m. on Sept. 24, according to the airline\u2019s website. It will return to JFK from DFW at 11:21 a.m. on Sept. 28. The travel details of the Cowboys\u2019 departing and return flights are not known. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/business\/airlines\/article\/american-airlines-fly-dallas-cowboys-to-rio-brazil-22335707.php?utm_term=343892&amp;utm_medium=American%20makes%20switch%20to%20fly%20Cowboys&amp;utm_source=pushly&amp;utm_content=not%20found&amp;utm_campaign=160884118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read more from our media partners, The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Airlines is moving one of its largest aircraft to North Texas in September so it can charter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16342,102,581,113,104,103,8709,300,80,154],"class_list":["post-367164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-blue-star","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallasnews-com","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}