Announced internally for summer 2019, flights go on sale the 17th. Also announced : PHXRDU PHX-RDU is a resumption as well. when did US or AA ever fly PHX/RDU? I thought that was the one hub route they've never done Pretty certain the merged AA has never flown this, maybe I'm wrong though since you...
Jump to postWill the second Madrid flight also be 789? Wow two daily Dallas-Madrid flights! It is time maybe for United to think about IAH-MAD. Might be useful and there's certainly a fair amount of business traffic, but the OW stranglehold certainly impacts things. Also, the Houston to Dallas train will have ...
Jump to postA few more thoughts: ⋅ The OP says the announcement is going to be done by Oscar, so I wouldn't expect this to be a run-of-the-mill route announcement (they usually just put out press releases for those, or at most they are announced by the VP of network planning or someone comparable). R...
Jump to postYes, UA has pulled back CLE. CLE resembles one of the best non-hub cities with non-stops to all hubs plus some point to point that few other cities receive. As such CLE is now receiving service on cherry picked routes by F9, NK and WN and other majors which can give passengers great deals. It's sad...
Jump to postDoes anyone have eyes on white E140s still floating around the system? I was told there are still 5 or 6 including N841AE that remain unpainted? If your referencing the classic eagle look then yep, I’ve seen them lined up at LGA the past few weeks. I didn’t grab any pictures though, they looked a l...
Jump to postBeen thinking more about yesterday's CLE/BOS news. So there's one argument that Boston is nothing for UA, it's a low yielding route that can't make money for UA, maybe DL will do better because they can get some connecting traffic on this route, and they have greater critical mass on the Boston sid...
Jump to postFound this in another thread, it’s almost as if UA knew a big announcement was coming....
https://news.delta.com/delta-adds-more- ... hington-dc
AA VP Network Vasu Raja at Airport Council conference today stated: "American is actively cutting flights in transpacific, where we don’t have these [joint venture] partnerships, and growing in the transatlantic where we do," says Raja. :scratchchin: Does the JAL JV not count?? Honestly i...
Jump to postI flew through monday and we taxied past the new structure, jetbridges we’re hung and retail stores were lit up, looks like NYC is getting a present for Christmas. Seriously though, kind of amazed it’s actually happening despite all the added headaches for construction. So with WN, UA & AC movin...
Jump to postIn addition to the late night DFW flight here in CLE they also had a late night CLT arrival which operated at similar times, I wasn’t sure if they were repositioning flights or scheduled - couldn’t find them on aa.com to book...
Jump to postThere seems to be a genuine madness going on here. There is no where aa can put these flights which would not end up hemorrhaging money. Why are they trying so hard to keep dl and ua from getting them? Let dl and ua get their slots and loose money with it. This is complete insanity. I’m not sure I’...
Jump to postAA had in some time JFK-HND route when HND traffic was not strong as is today. AA also flew NRT for JFK for years and had pretty good loads in all cabins each time I flew the route. HND was a bit of a debacle, the flight NYC-TYO worked ok from a timing perspective but the return times were awful - ...
Jump to postI have seen a lot of "Average Fare", "Non-stop Fare", and PRASM info in this thread, but I was wondering if one can get info on the price of a particular seat type in a particular market. For example: how much on average does B6 charge for a EMS seat BOS-SFO, or how much on aver...
Jump to postDomestically, I believe only the A321NEO will have 20 seats, the remaining 219 321s will have 16 seats.... Fortunately, all existing 321s are currently scheduled to go to 20F/176Y as part of the Oasis program. "According to David Seymour, American’s Senior Vice President of Integrated Operatio...
Jump to postOnly 1 fleet and 1 subfleet have lost J seats. The high J 772s were standardized which should be a net gain in utilization and reliability. The 788 was relatively premium heavy and was reduced to modestly premium light. Domestically the A319a were reduced to 8 but the A321s & neos will be i cre...
Jump to postThat is right I forgot about the B787-8s, they are going to be 20J, 28PE, 186Y. So in that fleet the PE room is coming from both J & Y. So in that fleet you will have 48 Premium seats (20J+28PE)) and Y is 186 down from 198. The B787-9 are remaining at their current config which is 30J, 21PE, 23...
Jump to postDL and UA had strong quarters, in part due to significant increases in bookings of premium seats. AA, on the other hand, has been jamming more seats in and making their airplanes as uncomfortable as possible. I like to think there’s a correlation here that will be a positive for overall passenger c...
Jump to postDL and UA had strong quarters, in part due to significant increases in bookings of premium seats. AA, on the other hand, has been jamming more seats in and making their airplanes as uncomfortable as possible. I like to think there’s a correlation here that will be a positive for overall passenger c...
Jump to postThe question really is, does Norweigen have sufficient cash flow to sustain the losses until they can raise fares. Who says they're making losses? On some flights indeed, I can see them make a loss. But other flights could just be profitable and those profits can be used to compensate the loss-maki...
Jump to postI guess I don’t understand why rising fuel costs will hurt Norwegian so much when they have modern 787s. You’d think DL would be hurting flying 767s. I believe Norwiegen historically has had narrow margins on their flying compared to Delta & other legacy carriers, while yes, they consume overal...
Jump to postNo, iirc DFW is one of the largest land holding airports in the world, the majority of which is undeveloped.... I believe they were exploring adding a mall on some of the southern portions of the property since they’d never need the land for airport business... I believe their biggest risk is AA, de...
Jump to postNothing, CLT is pretty small from an O&d perspective, the only reason to grab that many gates would be to sublease them out at super cheap rated to ULCCs to further cut AAs margins at the hub.... funny thing is from an o&d perspective it’s only 1/3 larger than CLE (about 12mm vs 9mm) - just...
Jump to postSome of the answer will depend on how BofA does it corporate travel. I've sat next to a number of Merrill Lynch folks out of NYC and BofA international banking folks from their BOS (former BankBoston/Fleet) office over the last year...a lot more than I used to or remember. It could just be people w...
Jump to postNothing, CLT is pretty small from an O&d perspective, the only reason to grab that many gates would be to sublease them out at super cheap rated to ULCCs to further cut AAs margins at the hub.... funny thing is from an o&d perspective it’s only 1/3 larger than CLE (about 12mm vs 9mm) - just...
Jump to postNothing, CLT is pretty small from an O&d perspective, the only reason to grab that many gates would be to sublease them out at super cheap rated to ULCCs to further cut AAs margins at the hub.... funny thing is from an o&d perspective it’s only 1/3 larger than CLE (about 12mm vs 9mm) - just...
Jump to postNothing, CLT is pretty small from an O&d perspective, the only reason to grab that many gates would be to sublease them out at super cheap rated to ULCCs to further cut AAs margins at the hub.... funny thing is from an o&d perspective it’s only 1/3 larger than CLE (about 12mm vs 9mm) - just ...
Jump to postInteresting routing, it appears to have flown EWR-CLT-IAH-CLE-CLT between yesterday & today, I couldn’t find the flights in the city pair search on the mobile app...
Jump to postThe 300km/h Shanghai Pudong Maglev train must beat them all! 8 minutes to do 30km http://www.shanghai-airport-transfer.com/transportation/maglev-train.htm If the station in town was better located or had more options I would agree, but last time I was there it was pretty hard to get to from Pudong ...
Jump to postI’ve seen both cases, but actually does anyone know how AA routes their 772s for mx at HKG? I’ve flown out several times and seen them in the hangers, I always wondered why they didn’t sub them in for 773 trips to get them back stateside..
Jump to postJust want to call out here that we're both using arguments without data, so we may end up agreeing to disagree, nonetheless it's an interesting back and forth. I'd love to get into actual reservation data & also run some A/B testing here however given the lack of articles & even assertions ...
Jump to postSeat width alone is not enough. Airlines can take media for a ride by quietly making the arm rest 0.5 inch wide or reduce aisle width to a minimum. The amount of passenger for a certain cabin width at shoulder height should be defined. As well a real leg space. "slim" Seats attacked passe...
Jump to postJust want to call out here that we're both using arguments without data, so we may end up agreeing to disagree, nonetheless it's an interesting back and forth. I'd love to get into actual reservation data & also run some A/B testing here however given the lack of articles & even assertions o...
Jump to postAA struggles with profits on A321T which is why they will be converted to standard 16F 171Y. https://simpleflying.com/inside-la-compagnies-new-a321neo-all-business-class-aircraft/ When was this announced? Last interview I heard was the performance on the trans con product was doing well, I was actu...
Jump to postI really wish the barriers to entry for the aviation business were lower in order to allow for some more disruption in the market by new entrants, given the barriers (cost, gate availability in large cities, slots on the east coast), there is an interesting role that government should play here. Bu...
Jump to postI really wish the barriers to entry for the aviation business were lower in order to allow for some more disruption in the market by new entrants, given the barriers (cost, gate availability in large cities, slots on the east coast), there is an interesting role that government should play here. Thi...
Jump to postYou’re absolutely right it slipped my mind about the retirement of the 767, 333 and few 772 withing next few years. Seems like PHL then would need help from other OW partners by adding there services and as mentioned I can only picture JL adding service. Possibly Iberia but that’s it. Hope I’m wron...
Jump to postOnce AA starts receiving the 787 starting in 2020 I feel that's when we will start to see real major international expansion from PHL. IMO I see AA adding seasonal NCE, MXP, AGP, and on smaller scale KEF within the next 2-3 years. For Asia service JL would be the best option for service as others h...
Jump to postPersonally - even more reason for me to switch my spend away from AA if they do this. Granted I've made very few changes over the years largely because of the penalty (Deaths in the family & last minute business reschedules are the only reasons) I completely support doing away with this fee. Loo...
Jump to postGood analysis. Interestingly, that has always been a bit of AA's issue on the narrowbody capacity. Most of it stemming from a strategy of a single narrowbody aircraft. For a long time it was the MD80 then they only bought 738's. That gap created some issues leading to buying F100s before the advent...
Jump to postThe 738's are legacy (Carty/Arpey/Horton) era purchases. I think we're going to see more airbus orders on the NB side going forward. AA still has 86 737s on order with Boeing & United has 129 still on the backlog, personally I don't see either moving in a direction to favor a manufacturer at th...
Jump to postIt seems, painting with a broad brush, that AA & UA are moving more toward a Airbus narrow body and Boeing widebody fleet while DL is going almost all Airbus. Um no AA has 304 738s and 14 73Ms in the fleet and 392 A320 family in the fleet currently with more 73Ms and A321s on order The 738's ar...
Jump to postI would be shocked if AA did not at some point make another 787 order featuring 787-10s. Those frames would be the best choice to replace both the 333s and that portion of the 772 fleet that is occupied flying TATL. But for now it's clear that the 767s and the long-distance 772 flights are up first...
Jump to postGreater service how so? I did a quick check of 4 west coast cities on Friday, and it looks pretty dead even, CLE has 1 more LAX flight, but PIT has nonstop access to SEA & SAN (ignores if it's seasonal or DOW specific): To LAX: PIT: 2 Flights (1x WN, 1x NK) CLE: 3 flights (1x NK, 2x UA) To SFO:...
Jump to postIs PIT's demand for the west coast higher than CLE's? I wouldn’t think so based on the greater service available from CLE. That’s what I was trying to say. Greater service how so? I did a quick check of 4 west coast cities on Friday, and it looks pretty dead even, CLE has 1 more LAX flight, but PIT...
Jump to postYou are looking too much at max capability. The 787 is not a dog on shorter routes and perfectly competitive with the A330. Since the 787-9 is replacing AA's 777-200ERs, would that cause a future order of more 787-9s to replace the A333 fleet? Yes it is true that the 787-9 will be the 77E replaceme...
Jump to postI dont think so, the -200s and -300s were both from US. i heard them possibly plan to but those weren't solid plans. I think the original plan was to get rid of the 333s quickly because of the small fleet however the plans got reshuffled earlier this year with the expanded 788/789 order, instead of...
Jump to postThey pad their schedule ridiculously. So the argument against that is they hurt their own profit by increasing block time. Well they can increase the turnaround time instead of just padding schedule. But they choose not to do that so they can pad the a14 figures. What is the difference between padd...
Jump to postDoes AA allow for cert UGs into "J" on international flights? I've never seen the logic in carriers that do. They are giving away their most expensive product for free. Basic Econ 101, limit your seats, increase revenue. Yes, but it’s not the same as domestic upgrades, there are two optio...
Jump to poston the 788 or 789? The 788 only has 28 J seats as it is so.... 788 which operates on these routes.. with the retrofit, j seat are expected top drop to either 24 or 20 (haven’t seen the final config) which is a pretty low count compared to other carriers. Even the 789 has a pretty small J cabin comp...
Jump to post[Over all this kind of leaves me wondering what they’re doing by shrinking the J cabin on the 787s, is this really going to pay off long term for any of their long haul flying or if we’re going to see further reductions on the 788 or 789? The 788 only has 28 J seats as it is so.... 788 which operat...
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