Looking at the combined destination list and strength of AA/LATAM from New York, it seems somewhat curious that there's no presence on the JFK-BOG route, as it is hub-hub. I can think of a few reasons why this might be so:
a) US-Colombia yields aren't what they used to be.
b) BOG's altitude affects aircraft performance and AA/LATAM don't have the right bird for the route (DL/CO do NYC-BOG with 738s/757s of which AA have plenty)
c) Avianca's the 800 pound gorilla on the route, and what marketshare is left is too fractured to support a nonstop.
d) AA would rather flow Colombian traffic over MIA/DFW.
Anyone else want to take a guess?
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Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
If I'm not mistaken, AA applied years ago for a BOG-JFK authority, however it never came to fruition and CO (now UA) got its current BOG-EWR route.
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Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
BOG is hardly a LATAM hub these days...
Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
Lots of flights between JFK and MIA so my assumption would be is that One World is routing Bogota traffic through MIA.
Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
AFAIK, DL doesn’t operate JFK-BOG anymore. I’m not sure when it stopped.
Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
RAGAZZO777 wrote:BOG is hardly a LATAM hub these days...
LATAM Serves 21 destinations throughout the Americas via BOG, so while it's no SCL or GRU, it's not nothing either.
Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
GSP psgr wrote:RAGAZZO777 wrote:BOG is hardly a LATAM hub these days...
LATAM Serves 21 destinations throughout the Americas via BOG, so while it's no SCL or GRU, it's not nothing either.
LIM is a big HUB for LATAM as well. It flies 9x weekly LIM-JFK.
Re: Why No AA/LATAM Service JFK-BOG?
GSP psgr wrote:RAGAZZO777 wrote:BOG is hardly a LATAM hub these days...
LATAM Serves 21 destinations throughout the Americas via BOG, so while it's no SCL or GRU, it's not nothing either.
More like a focus city than anything else: only 9 international destinations and the rest are domestic.
AV on the other hand....
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