UA only flies EZE-IAH. I believe CO/UA have struggled with EWR (and IAD) to EZE over the years and it's been on and off, currently off. AEP-MIA will be a slam dunk for AR but hopefully the airport can be expanded to accommodate more widebodies and they can compete. I just spent a week in Argentina,...
Jump to postUmmm, because they're making money with it.... AA makes a fortune flying to Argentina. Between MIA, JFK, and DFW (and in the past LAX) American has a massive presence at EZE. They place a huge amount of capacity to Argentine because they sell it, and at very premium prices. Even Y is expensive. AA ...
Jump to postOr is this a question of aircraft availability? I'd suspect that first. It has to be aircraft availability. There’s no way this route is gone permanently. That would be such a big hole in the IAH network. With the stated "pilots please take vacation," lack of Boeing deliveries on-time, th...
Jump to postNewark-Faro and Cebu-Narita both postponed and unlikely to launch any time soon. Perhaps sales not great, or perhaps the FAA is tightening the vise around UA. Faro has no start date. Cebu was just delayed to October. It's reported that Faro is pushed back to Summer '25. Makes sense with it being a ...
Jump to postseat1a wrote:What are the top intercontinental routes for Aerolineas Argentinas? Is it MIA, MAD, and FCO?
Newark-Faro and Cebu-Narita both postponed and unlikely to launch any time soon. Perhaps sales not great, or perhaps the FAA is tightening the vise around UA.
Jump to postFWIW - they'll be getting some practice on the plumbing arrangements with the 321T reconfigurations to Oasis. What's the anticipated timeline for the 321T's to be fully replaced and converted to standard Oasis? These birds are 10-11 years old, delivered and deployed on JFK-LAX/SFO from Q3-2013 into...
Jump to postAA could probably get the XV planes to 196 seats by using the space flex lavs in the rear. But since these are going to be used on medium-long domestic runs will they want to sacrifice galley space to do so? I would say the bigger problem would be the plumbing rearrangement that I would think would...
Jump to postI have to wonder if the introduction of Delta flying this route, the extension of the route into June and the up gauge to an a330-900 played into the reported loses. Also curious if Delta will try to go year-round on the route now that AR may exit and codeshare via SkyTeam. This route will be opera...
Jump to postI think it would be cool if these flights/a future hub succeed, but I just searched the MAF and MFE flights on delta.com for the first few days they're available and the prices are rock bottom yet they're still empty. And I mean completely empty. Those routes don’t make sense unless DL is planning ...
Jump to postTurns outs even SAS has their US offices in New Jersey. https://winmo.com/open/company/travel-and-hospitality-airlines/nj/lyndhurst/scandinavian-airlines-system-sas/12535#:~:text=Headquartered%20in%20Lyndhurst%2C%20New%20Jersey,services%20company%20founded%20in%201946. As we all know, SK moved to E...
Jump to postTurns outs even SAS has their US offices in New Jersey. https://winmo.com/open/company/travel-and-hospitality-airlines/nj/lyndhurst/scandinavian-airlines-system-sas/12535#:~:text=Headquartered%20in%20Lyndhurst%2C%20New%20Jersey,services%20company%20founded%20in%201946. Reason for this was their par...
Jump to postME720 wrote:And a lot of finance jobs moved out of London since Brexit, mainly to paris and Luxembourg.
lostsound wrote:Tolbs wrote:I look on this website: https://www.flightconnections.com/
I see NBO, AUS, PHX, BOS, LAS, CPT, have those planes right now. I'm sure there are more,
They also fly to YVR
Great report, Flew Norwegian from BER to BGO (Bergen, Norway) in August 2017. Great flight. Fast Wifi. Clean, new looking plane. Nice service.
Jump to postAlitalia was a major player in EU in early 2000s, beside the poorly results - the company had twice profit years in its history. The fleet, as said above, was formed by 767-300ER and MD-11 (I think the 747-200 was phasing out), with A320 and MD-82 in domestic and european routes. The company was pr...
Jump to postIf SK can obtain more slots at JFK, I can see them moving the entire NY area operation there and closing down the EWR gateway they've had since the late 1980s, which was a direct result of SK's investment in Continental Airlines at the time, and then endured for 35+ years since, even with minimal c...
Jump to postIf SAS left EWR they would lose the business contracts, Maersk, to United. United doesn't serve Scandinavia from EWR year round, and its sole route is to ARN, seasonally, and it runs on and off. Maersk would have to then rely on UA for connections. Might as well just send staff to JFK. Would UA sta...
Jump to postIf SK can obtain more slots at JFK, I can see them moving the entire NY area operation there and closing down the EWR gateway they've had since the late 1980s, which was a direct result of SK's investment in Continental Airlines at the time, and then endured for 35+ years since, even with minimal c...
Jump to postIf SK can obtain more slots at JFK, I can see them moving the entire NY area operation there and closing down the EWR gateway they've had since the late 1980s, which was a direct result of SK's investment in Continental Airlines at the time, and then endured for 35+ years since, even with minimal co...
Jump to postAlitalia's was profitable in 1997 and that was pretty much it. In the early 2000s, they replaced the 747s and MD11s and went with the 777-200ER and second hand 767-300ERs and then the long haul fleet settled around 10 77Es and 12 or 14 A332s. They had ordered 5 747-400s in 1999 originally but those...
Jump to postA very high service level??? The biggest problem wasn't so much the product, but rather the staff attitude that bordered on arrogance/confrontational/nasty. In the end the staff blamed the management for all AZ's problems, but the staff's own actions were a contributing factor. I know many Italian ...
Jump to postAlitalia/ITA's fundamental problem is that its cost structure remains high and its network doesn't support long term profitability. FCO is the primary (and now, since January when MXP was cut entirely) only main intercontinental hub, which skews leisure and seasonal. AZ has a strong hold on slots at...
Jump to postBetween Cranky Flier dubbing it "The Worst Airline Ever" and a website literally titled Alitaliasucks.com, how bad was Alitalia really by the 2000s (in terms of service quality, public perception, financials, etc)? Alitalia's was profitable in 1997 and that was pretty much it. In the earl...
Jump to postWhy divert? It looks like an Austrian flight diverted to SWF too, there was a little wind in NY today but not the kind of weather that I would think would necessitate a diversion and all the news articles suggest the injured pax suffered only minor injuries so why not continue to EWR? If there are ...
Jump to postThanks for this informative post. It sounds like DL built its current JFK TATL network vs the majority of it being from the Pan Am acquisition. So in hindsight, was the purchase a waste of money? In addition, DL poured hundreds of millions into maintaining T2 and T3 which were in worse shape than t...
Jump to postThe questions needs more context. OP is talking about a time frame that's unrealistically long: 1991 to 2024. Things change- maybe profitable one day, the next day no. As for Riyadh, IIRC that was last served with TWA? In the first few years of DL's acquisition of Pan Am's TATL network out of JFK, ...
Jump to postThe questions needs more context. OP is talking about a time frame that's unrealistically long: 1991 to 2024. Things change- maybe profitable one day, the next day no. As for Riyadh, IIRC that was last served with TWA? In the first few years of DL's acquisition of Pan Am's TATL network out of JFK, ...
Jump to postcapejet wrote:Were these cities PanAm was flying nonstop from JFK, or did some go through LHR and FRA? I think Pan Am had mini hubs in those 2 European airports.
Interesting...I always thought the Hawaiian and Jetblue partnership was a match made in heaven With HA and AS tying the knot (supposedly), the B6 partnership wasn't going to last anyway. I think it would behoove AS to keep the B6 partnership. B6 gives HA what neither AS or HA can do themselves out ...
Jump to postWhere would SAS get its JFK slots? It shouldn't expect a gift. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ato/service_units/systemops/perf_analysis/slot_administration/data/doc/JFK_S23_HOLDER_TOTALS.pdf Without connections to UA, or handling by UA, there's little reason to continue E...
Jump to postI remember back in the 70s and 80s SAS having a sizeable presence at JFK. Their move to EWR was quite noticeable by the amount of space they vacated in the old IAB. Would anybody know when they resumed service at JFK? They resumed in November 2022. SAS decamped from JFK to EWR in 1988-89 when they ...
Jump to postHopefully yes. Two very different markets. BLQ's loads were terrible, though cargo supposedly performed fairly well. There was only a half-hearted attempt to market BLQ as a gateway to Tuscany and Umbria, which is what that route was intended to capture, and it didn't generate meaningful POS on the...
Jump to postSome interesting reading from American Italian's perspective on 2024 USA-Italy travel. https://italoamericano.org/2024-year-of-roots-tourism/ I quote from the first paragraph Also some biblical studies suggest 2024 is the year of rapture (I personally walk far far away from such predictions and cro...
Jump to postINFINITI329 wrote:Did B6 & HA have a falling out? I flew into JFK recently only to notice that HA has relocated to terminal 4
These points are all pretty fair. I believe the stats on performance metrics are starting to turn a bit as AA has seen drastic improvement in the past 2 years, but most of these assertions are valid - if I lived in Atlanta (or Minneapolis, Detroit, Salt Lake City, etc.), I'd be flying Delta. In my ...
Jump to postULCC in Y? Hundreds of free movies, live TV, music, power, device holder, streaming wifi (albeit for a fee), free drinks, free snacks. If you've flown Ryanair, Spirit, or Frontier (or even Southwest) you'd know the difference. AA sounds like WN but with less seat pitch, Basic Economy fares, and bag...
Jump to post1. About half the Y+ seating UA offers. 2. Outdated technology compared to UA (Limited but mainly on the app). 3. Lack of investment in hub facilities (Varies by airport but look at places like PHL, CLT, MIA, etc.). 4. Much stricter refund/credit policy for canceled/changed flights. AA really doesn...
Jump to postYou're not wrong though - AA definitely knows that in-seat IFE matters. Which is why they haven't ripped it out of widebodies and why the A321XLR will come with in-seat IFE. Basically AA's management uses twisted logic in that domestic passengers all have their own devices. Well, don't internationa...
Jump to postTo be fair, their NYC and SFO flights are now all on the upgraded 77Ws and 77Ls. Although they did not design these planes, they have been getting great reviews and I know people who swear by these "new" planes. So, I believe, at least with a part of the Indian traveller, the perception i...
Jump to postItaly has always been a very strong performer for summer leisure travel going back to the days of Pan Am and TWA. Nothing's really changed here, except for the profile of the traveler. More leisure premium, willing to pay for Premium Economy or in some cases, business class. The rest is business as...
Jump to postThere's definitely some of Italian Americans visiting the homeland, but most are this new breed of luxury leisure travelers. It started before the pandemic but has since grown exponentially, Italy has become a luxury leisure mecca; you see it with all the celebrities. Positano, Amalfi, Capri are re...
Jump to postMy God! WTH is with Rome this year??? How can there possibly be enough traffic to make all that profitable/sustainable, even from NYC with it's admittedly huge catchment area and discounting connecting traffic on UA/DL/AA? Some interesting reading from American Italian's perspective on 2024 USA-Ita...
Jump to postThat's insane. Never would have thought there was that much Premium demand. Tapping into premium leisure demand, but it is also about capacity, broadly. FCO is a goldmine right now, in peak season. The NY Area to FCO market is huge, with 3 x daily on AZ, 3 x daily on DL, 2 x daily on UA (EWR), + No...
Jump to postAA is going double daily B77W (iso B77W + B772) on JFK-FCO sector for the peak summer. https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1771732382183280787 That's insane. Never would have thought there was that much Premium demand. Tapping into premium leisure demand, but it is also about capacity, broadly. FCO...
Jump to postAA is going double daily B77W (iso B77W + B772) on JFK-FCO sector for the peak summer. https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1771732382183280787 Very cool. They'll have no trouble filing both, given the demand. Originally, the 77W on JFK-FCO was to operate all but 2 weeks to FCO, during the Paris Oly...
Jump to postSo, basically BOS, JFK and Northeast to Florida. Not sure if Europe will last in the Fall. Overdue but necessary. I really do wish them the best. It does seem like a new arrangement with AA similar to the AA/AS agreement should be pursued. Even the judge said that would pass muster. The prior propo...
Jump to postI expect a new AA agreement. Why wouldn’t Europe last its perfect for BOS and JFK. I really think UA is a better partner long term for B6. Of course they should not do this now. But when the day comes that B6 is profitable and willing to grow, they need to get a better footprint west of the Mississ...
Jump to postHere are all the LAX cuts, from June: -SFO, SEA, MIA, LAS, RNO, PVR, LIR, CUN -34 daily departures going down to 24. Other network cuts (non-LAX): -Bogota, Quito, Lima, Kansas City, Newburg, NY (Stewart Airport) Further: -FLL to AUS, ATL, BNA, MSY, SLC all being cut -JFK to DTW -TPA to Aguadilla, PR
Jump to postAny idea when more E190s are being phased out? Seems like JetBlue has gotten 4 or 5 A220s already this year and no E190s have been taken out of service. The E190s and B6's fleet is part of its problem. For an airline of its size, it operates E190s, A321, A320, and A3220. Four types is a lot for an ...
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