Also, it wasn't terribly long ago when AA announced that a few of their daily LAX-BOS flights would be scheduled on their business class oriented A321T jet (likely as a response to JetBlue's MINT product). Of course, lots of schedule changes will be made between now and then and perhaps B6 will bec...
Jump to postOne is in south america and the other 2 are in Asia. Totally different market. AA probably feels like it needs to re-assert itself in LAX now that DL is making a big play in the market. But the reality is China Region was a disaster out of LAX for AA pre-COVID and it will be even worse if they trie...
Jump to postIf you think LAX-HKG/PVG are coming back, you have completely underestimated the level of demand drop to Asia for the next few years. AA announced at their most recent LAX employee town hall that they are wanting to bring LAXHKG back sooner rather than later. PVG will be longer term. No plans for P...
Jump to postThis is a great move and hopefully, the rest of the industry will follow suit. It got beyond ridiculous. If you must travel with a peacock, tarantula, snake, etc...you don't belong in an airplane.
Jump to postAmerican cut a total of four daily long-haul flights. That's not a lot. And its look two of them - Hong Kong looking likely and Shanghai maybe - are coming back. Plus they are adding other flying like Christchurch. Also, we are talking about COVID times. A lot of these cuts are temporary, just like...
Jump to postFYI American has a huge operation in RDU. Also RDU has the APEX, and pretty much every major tech company has facilities or offices in the area. It’s nothing like CLT two different animals all together Not really, no. AA's operations at RDU pre-COVID19 were not insignificant but far from huge, with...
Jump to postI guess eastern can fill the whole anc flight with tours or cruise packages Since there are no cruises anywhere, I'm pretty sure that's not the case. There will be cruises again. As long as there are plenty of old people who want scenery without effort, there will be Alaska cruises. 2021 may be a l...
Jump to postHow many of the JetBlue routes that are going to 0 for February were recently announced? Seems like they have been the new Frontier, just “throwing darts at the board.” I had few chances last year to fly them and glad I did not, and now planning a trip for mid February and they are the cheapest opt...
Jump to postCLT's local market is shockingly small. It's only slightly more than RDU. If RDU had more service at lower fares than CLT, that gap probably will be even smaller. If CLT can be turned into the mega-SE hub and BNA is on it's own way to a 150+ flight SE hub, why can't JetBlue turn RDU into it's own S...
Jump to postReally surprised that AA didn't already offer PHL-MEX. This seems like a pretty smart add for Eastern. Don't know the numbers on demand though. JFK-ANC is not one that I expected, but we'll see what happens. Doesn't UA offer EWR-ANC seasonally? This one might be a tossup if they succeed but can't h...
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:I guess eastern can fill the whole anc flight with tours or cruise packages
Eastern Airlines has the potential to cause a lot of headaches for AA. They are literally replicating AA's network to the Caribbean / South America one city at a time. The airline has a lot lower cost structure and if they can provide some very attractive fares, might be able to really give AA issu...
Jump to postIf CLT can be turned into the mega-SE hub and BNA is on it's own way to a 150+ flight SE hub, why can't JetBlue turn RDU into it's own SE station at a much smaller scale? Because...competition. The ATL and CLT hubs already have the non-stop destination counts and frequencies. BNA is very substantia...
Jump to postB6's February cuts are not insignificant, with capacity down roughly 40% from where it was a year ago, but that's a tough and unfair comparison given that the pandemic was not yet fully impacting air travel in February 2020. Still these cuts: BOS-BDA, MSP, PHL, ROC, SYR FLL-PSP (this should surprise...
Jump to postMakes you wonder if it would cost them less to have tried to save MXP than to have completely cut and suffered the consequences because of it. AZ building a hub at MXP is futile when the key domestic and European routes by competitors are flown from the in city LIN for which customers have a prefer...
Jump to postBoeing is one of the most arrogant Fortune 500 companies out there. For every incredible innovation it has achieved over the years (and there are many) it has stumbled many times over, treating its employees like crap, flouting regulations to cut costs, and having too close a relationship with the F...
Jump to postI was browsing images and saw this: https://www.airliners.net/photo/Aeroflot-Russian-International-Airlines/Airbus-A310-308-ET/80855 It looks like in the 1990's Aeroflot flew to Sydney from Moscow via Asia with an A310? Was the route profitable? I know this was before the Sydney 2000 Olympics which...
Jump to postWe are a group flying today to PLS (Turks & Caicos) from JFK and Atlanta. Both flights were delayed 4 hours in advance of the flights. Now the question is do we delay going to the airport. With COVID no one wants to hang out at the airport. I hope DL solves the staffing issue. Btw the Diamond l...
Jump to postx1234 wrote:When is SYD, AKL, HKG coming back?
I agree. American also retired four fleet types (E-190s, 757s, 767s, A330s) and has been running a larger schedule but has not had any of the upheaval DL has. Do better Delta management. 20 190s, 34 767s, 24 757s, and 24 330s. Compared to 193 MD80/88/90, 18 777, 35 319/20/21s 29 717s, 14 330s, 16 7...
Jump to postThe global aviation industry is presently facing its greatest challenge ever, far more acute than 9/11. Schedule changes can be abrupt, service standards aren't harmonized and continuously evolving due to the pandemic, and with business travel virtually dead (with less than 10% office occupancy, peo...
Jump to postBoof02671 wrote:My bad I read it wrong
AA is smart using the B788 to move cargo to/from Latin America especially fresh produce. In Europe & Asia there's dedicated freighter airlines and companies dumpling a lot of capacity. There is none of that in Latin America so no wonder AA is king for cargo to/from Latin America. Agreed, though...
Jump to postraylee67 wrote:ZK-NBT wrote:trex8 wrote:CI never operated a 747 Combi
Is he confusing CI with CA who did have combis, and the flight originated in PEK not TPE?
I don't think CA ever flown JFK-AMS though.
And CI never did trans-Atlantic flights too.
AA is smart using the B788 to move cargo to/from Latin America especially fresh produce. In Europe & Asia there's dedicated freighter airlines and companies dumpling a lot of capacity. There is none of that in Latin America so no wonder AA is king for cargo to/from Latin America. Agreed, though...
Jump to postAA's placing the 787-8 on DFW-BOG in April. Additionally, AA has now schedule four daily flights on MIA-LIM from April 2021 and onward, one of them on the 787-8. AA originally intended to increase MIA-LIM to 3x daily in 2020 up from 2x daily in 2019 but didn't due to COIVD Overall, 2021 MIA-LIM cap...
Jump to postI remember seeing the LADECO 757 at JFK once, parked near the hangars as you approach what was then the old Eastern Air Lines Terminal that was replaced by Terminal One. It was a beautiful aircraft. I don't remember if Ladeco operated via LIM or another city on the JFK-SCL sector.
Jump to postHe's a jailbird, a bank robber with additional run-ins with the law. Says he got PTSD from jail, not from any military service. Whatever. He knows he's got that condition so he shouldn't be flying. Not only did he delay the Delta flight and 100+ folks on that - according to the NYPA it caused other...
Jump to postJust finished rewatching The Wedding Banquet (1993) which was filmed on location at the TWA Flight Center, with several scenes prominently featuring the Saarinen Flight Center, including one from across a parking garage where a full complement of TWA L1011s, 767s, and 2 747s are being prepared for t...
Jump to postWhen people do stuff like this, they should be put on a no-fly list for 25+ years. On every airline. To every destination. That will end it. PTSD???? Whatever. The ones now suffering PTSD are the other passengers and crew from that flight. The Air Carrier Access Act sets a pretty high bar to refuse...
Jump to postInteresting that AA is suspending BDA-PHL/JFK/MIA in favor of BDA-CLT. BDA was always CLT's weakest Caribbean route, and it was never flown more than once or twice weekly in peak season, even in good economic times. I assume they are attempting to optimize connections? Except that Bermuda isn't in ...
Jump to postWhen people do stuff like this, they should be put on a no-fly list for 25+ years. On every airline. To every destination. That will end it. PTSD???? Whatever. The ones now suffering PTSD are the other passengers and crew from that flight.
Jump to postAA's product is literally inferior to everybody in the domestic market, even Spirit, and they've been able to compete. I don't know why this is such a popular point, but it's just simply not true. You could argue their product is worse than DL and UA, which I would also disagree with, the three of ...
Jump to postUA flies EWR-CZM seasonally, and AA is supposedly launching PHL-CZM in March 2021 (not NYC, I know, but it is a new addition there). Perhaps AA, DL and B6 don't want to cannibalize CUN service they have from JFK? CUN is a big station for all 3.
Jump to postCALMSP wrote:was this run previously with a 762 or 330 with US Air?
According to Cranky Flyer, American is launching FLL-BOS/LAX/JFK and DFW-LGB https://twitter.com/crankyflier/status/1340095209233739776 These currently aren't open for booking, but they'll likely become available over the weekend. JetBlue just announced MIA-BOS/JFK/LAX/EWR yesterday and here we are...
Jump to postNot at all surprising as as KEF and PRG are leisure routes. The MAN cut is a bit surprising though it does further illustrate (as was discussed in the EI starting MAN-BOS/JFK/MCO flights) that the market doesn't really work well and isn't profitable. NO it does not.at all. The route started in 1998...
Jump to postNO it does not.at all. The route started in 1998 and got upgraded to A330s inside 9 months due to the pointy end bit of the 767 being filled. That AA has run down JFK, ORD and PHL by putting on inferior aircraft then introducing an unreliable aircraft before really going after the regular premium p...
Jump to postB6's rate of cash burn relative to revenue is higher than any of the other US airlines at the moment, and growing fast. That's not the case for Q3. Since we don't actually have numbers for Q4, maybe you shouldn't be making this kind of broad statement? Case in point, their guidance for Q3 was 7 to ...
Jump to postB6's rate of cash burn relative to revenue is higher than any of the other US airlines at the moment, and growing fast. B6 remains primarily an East Coast carrier, where traffic is muted outside of Northeast to Florida markets, where a number of carriers are now piling on capacity and entering marke...
Jump to postAA flew NYC-FLL (albeit once a day for a time before cutting it). Interesting adds, and I suspect these are about increasing demand given the number of people, notably from the northeast, who have decamped to Florida (some permanent, some to second homes) and the small but growing number of busines...
Jump to postNot at all surprising as as KEF and PRG are leisure routes. The MAN cut is a bit surprising though it does further illustrate (as was discussed in the EI starting MAN-BOS/JFK/MCO flights) that the market doesn't really work well and isn't profitable. NO it does not.at all. The route started in 1998...
Jump to postAlso, KEF was flown on a 757. These are now gone from the fleet. The smallest wide body at AA (788) is too much plane for that route anyway. Some of these aren't coming back until the A321XLR's arrive. AA can operate to KEF from the east coast with a standard B738, A319 or A320. No need for a MAX, ...
Jump to postAlso, KEF was flown on a 757. These are now gone from the fleet. The smallest wide body at AA (788) is too much plane for that route anyway. Some of these aren't coming back until the A321XLR's arrive.
Jump to postAA flew NYC-FLL (albeit once a day for a time before cutting it). Interesting adds, and I suspect these are about increasing demand given the number of people, notably from the northeast, who have decamped to Florida (some permanent, some to second homes) and the small but growing number of business...
Jump to postNot at all surprising as as KEF and PRG are leisure routes. The MAN cut is a bit surprising though it does further illustrate (as was discussed in the EI starting MAN-BOS/JFK/MCO flights) that the market doesn't really work well and isn't profitable. Summer 2021 is going to be very tough for TATL tr...
Jump to postCargo demand, as much as passenger demand, will be a key factor in determining what CX will select as an A330 replacement, and whether that plane already exists in the fleet or is purchased new. I think the A359 (-900 and -1000) will likely assume more of the 77W routes and the 77Ws allowing for a r...
Jump to postYour assessment on RDU is not entirely accurate. DL, has, in fact, at least until yesterday's announcements and schedule changes, been the dominant airline there for the last few years and had built up a rather impressive focus city. It is a high yielding, business market, but it can't escape COVID...
Jump to postBased on these routes, the AA/B6 relationship certainly seems to have a “frenemies” dynamic... At least nobody can accuse them of collusion. I don't see the AA/B6 partnership ever taking off. There's really no upside to either airline for it. B6 doesn't need AA and I suspect AA will not get the tra...
Jump to postYour assessment on RDU is not entirely accurate. DL, has, in fact, at least until yesterday's announcements and schedule changes, been the dominant airline there for the last few years and had built up a rather impressive focus city. It is a high yielding, business market, but it can't escape COVID...
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