KL808 From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1573 posts, RR: 2 Posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1655 times:
Hey guys I just noticed on AA.com that all LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX to AA), Japan">NRT / RJAA), Japan">AA), Japan">NRT bookings are going through JL.
I thought that AA was going to start this service on the 14th of June.
What happened? Has this been delayed again? Or has it finally been scrapped due to problems in the far east and the airline industry here?
AA61hvy From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 13975 posts, RR: 59 Reply 1, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 1633 times:
My guess is it never "took off" because of the economy.
GARUDAROD From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 1477 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1606 times:
Last I heard it has been postponed until Spring 2004...
FlyPNS1 From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 6049 posts, RR: 25 Reply 3, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1575 times:
GARUDAROD is correct. AA has decided to delay the flight until April 2004 due to weak demand.
Flyboy7974 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 1540 posts, RR: 2 Reply 4, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1473 times:
demand has nothing to do with this route, our neighbor in l.a. is senior c/s for aa in lax, and she said loads in the first months were pushing 60-70%. they pulled the 777 that was suppose to fly the route for govt charters overseas due to the war. govt charters right now are good money for most airlines not doing so well.
Dutchjet From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, RR: 58 Reply 5, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1451 times:
AA's interest in operating LAX-AA), Japan">NRT was always a bit strange to me, but the start up date of this new service was first delayed from April to June, I believe, during the weeks leading up to the war in Iraq, and was recently again postposed from the June 2003 start up date until somtime in 2004 (spring is likely). Hopefully by then, the world economies will pick up and the SARS crisis will be behind us, as well as some type of peace in the mid-east.
There are conflicting rumors as to how the bookings were on this new AA route, some say they were very, very light, others say they were OK but the mix of traffic was off, with mostly low-fare leisure traffic. (It would make sense that most of the advanced reservations were tourists, low-cost seats fill up much earlier on.) AA probably decided it simply is not the time to start up a route such as this, especially with all of the competition between LAX and Japan.
DL recently walked away from this route, after years of trying to make LAX-AA), Japan">NRT - I really cant think of why AA will have better luck than DL.
ContinentalEWR From United States of America, joined exactly 13 years ago today! , 3762 posts, RR: 15 Reply 6, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1381 times:
American has postponed the route launch until Spring 2004. It was originally slated to begin in April 2003 and then the date was moved to June 2003. It is now postponed.
Sponsor Message: 
From United States of America, joined May 1999, 1573 posts, 
From Netherlands, joined Oct 2000, 7864 posts, 
, 3762 posts, 
From Comoros, joined Jun 2001, 2010 posts, 
Printer friendly format 
