AA has had notorious lazy flight attendants since I've flying them since 2003. Some of this goes back to the huge wage cuts in 2003 and then the wage cuts in the bankruptcy came along. Also the need to do less in coach has gotten flight attendants on longer flights used to doing a beverage service ...
Jump to postNow that the NEA is in the past, will AA re-strengthen its domestic market at JFK? There are specifically medium- haul flights that AA could return. JFK-LAS/SAN/SEA/SJU come to mind. Specifically JFK-LAS which performed well and was around a year ago. With B6’s 4 daily flights now separated, this c...
Jump to posthttps://abc7ny.com/amp/united-ceo-scott-kirby-flying-private-apologize/13448420/ It’s not that he left, it’s that he isn’t a good enough leader to see the potential damage it would cause to the airlines image and employee moral. For some folks, if you’ve never worked for an airline? You’ll never un...
Jump to postAA adding CVG-CUN for the winter. 1x weekly (Saturdays) from Dec. 9 until end of winter schedule. It may only be an additional 1x weekly flight, but I'm loving this growth AA and it's partners are doing at CVG I love that AA is focusing on growing the midwest. Seems like an Admiral's Club in CVG, C...
Jump to postVery interesting. Looks like it’s not even connected to Terminal D South and would only be accessed by Skylink? Agreed...not at all what I expected for "F". I just assumed a copy of Terminal "D". 15 gates is not a lot...but it looks like a lower-cost build than Terminal D. With ...
Jump to postWasn’t the one of the conditions for approval of the QF/AA JV the initiation of new routes? Looks like UA is effectively carrying out what the QF/AA were supposed to do in Oceania, while AA has been awfully quiet. LAX-AKL and LAX-CHC are nowhere to be seen. It is interesting to see UA essentially l...
Jump to postevank516 wrote:Happy for DL! Glad they stood their ground in DAL. I remember this was their original plan years ago before all the stuff hit the fan.
Yeah, I don't get the love affair with CVG. It's the 30th largest MSMA in the United States, and I'd think there are a lot better targets for growth. Even STL is bigger and we know how that ended up. Sent from my SM-G981U using Tapatalk CVG doesn't have a large WN operation like STL does. Although ...
Jump to postIf I had to bet, I'd say Avelo. Cross-posting from another thread, however, I wouldn't totally count MX out on the basis of distance with them flying to PIT and CAK, which are a similar distance apart (77 miles to PIT/CAK's 85 at its shortest drive). I've always thought NK would be a great fit at D...
Jump to postSo im in Austin this weekend for F1 and I am wondering what DL plans to do here. Is Austin still a “Focus City”? Will they do anything with at Austin? What does a AUS focus city look like for Delta? They have international service through their JV partners. AUS has been part of Delta's larger plan ...
Jump to postMy sister had her wedding reception at the Stewardess College. On another note, I wonder if they'll use this for crew overnights and those commuting. Seems like 600 rooms is a lot to fill on a consistent basis.
Jump to postIND can probably support the return of WN IND-MCI nonstop service with the PDEW of MCI-IND being 112 passengers/day in 2019, and the new terminal at MCI is also scheduled to open in March 2023. Doubt it would be WN, not to mention the PDEW demand for a route like IND-MCI is a lot different now than...
Jump to postI don't see AA adding places like MSY. MSY doesn't really fit into AA network strategy of point to points beyond hub flying. That said, I think we could see RDU-MEM, and RDU-LAX at some point, but beyond those two, I wouldn't expect much else. Additionally, I wonder what AA strategy with Admirals Cl...
Jump to postWhere did you find the cargo schedule? I know AA has been operating cargo flights to China and Korea in addition to its twice weekly DFW-ICN-PVG flight, but how many? Do the cargo flights to China stop in ICN? Three a day to ICN is a lot, they must be making good money on those flights to not put t...
Jump to postLooking at AA schedule for Asia this week, I noticed three daily ICN flights from LAX, plus a lot of other 9XXX flight numbers to China etc... Are these cargo flights? And, with the plane shortage, wouldn't these planes be of better use flying to Europe?
Jump to postDecember and year end passenger traffic, nothing too surprising, in general the airport was down 15% compared to 2019. December saw a slowdown probably related to the rise in Covid cases. In 2022 it will be interesting to watch the changes and compare to what airlines original plans in 2019 were, f...
Jump to postDecember 2020 with 1,595,821 passengers flying during the month, and was the busiest December on record at AUS. Overall for the year, 13,570,711 passengers flew through Austin. https://www.austintexas.gov/news/december-2021-passenger-cargo-traffic-aus-year-end-numbers-2021 Amazing that December 202...
Jump to postThe letters from both companies said no bases are closing... now that could just be talk to calm fears and of course some could close down the road.. but at least for awhile it seems like they stay. Not closing a base is one thing. Reducing a headcount at a base by 100 or whatever through synergies...
Jump to postI do wonder what AA core long-haul international network will look like in the next few years once the immediate Covid related drama subsides. Outside LatAm, looks like AA will increasingly be putting its eggs into feeding partner hubs, taking a step back a decade to Gerard Arpey days. Interestingl...
Jump to postTheir JFK strategy is nothing short of epileptic. Pre pandemic they were cutting left and right, and now they are trying to build it up again. Although discussed at on the AA thread, jetBlue is the reason for the build-up. This NE strategy is close to brilliant considering AA's options. RE: 787 del...
Jump to postThis was 2020 market share rankings. AA 19.3%, WN 17.4%, DL 15.5%, UA 12.4% Will be interesting to see 2022 numbers to compare. https://www.statista.com/statistics/250577/domestic-market-share-of-leading-us-airlines/ It's fascinating to see that AA is bigger than a whole Alaska against UA! Also, in...
Jump to postAmerican Airlines Group could merge MQ and PT into a single airline as (a) both MQ and PT operate ERJ-145 regional jets, (b) the ERJ-145 is the only regional jet model that PT currently operates, and (c) merging MQ and PT into a single carrier would allow American Airlines Group to eliminate some o...
Jump to postThey never started BOS-RDU. A lot of these "cuts" out of JFK/LGA really weren't operating even before COVID. JFK-YUL/YYZ hadn't operated since April of 2019 when 737MAX got grounded. Most of the LGA cuts are just efforts to shift slot usage to more important markets that AA/B6 need to cov...
Jump to postI just noticed that AA is running 9 widebodies out of ICN today and pretty much all week. Is this mostly cargo? What are the flight numbers? That will tell you. A lot of them are 9XXX. I'm just surprised at the amount of cargo capacity that AA is running through there. My understanding is that thes...
Jump to postI just noticed that AA is running 9 widebodies out of ICN today and pretty much all week. Is this mostly cargo?
Jump to postWith UA's recent cut backs in regional markets, are we going to see AA do something similar, or will we see them take advantage of the situation (i.e. add: ORD-ILM)?
Jump to postAA has Terminal 8 at JFK which is beautiful. You conveniently forget that. All of DFW except for C is nice enough and same or better than ATL and the plan is to make C look nicer too in the next few years. Brand new terminal at DCA. LAX Termibal 4 much better than the DL mess at T2 and T3 and more ...
Jump to postWhat would it take to pull some 767's out of storage to compensate for the delayed 787s? With the expected TA rebound, will AA fall further behind UA and DL?
Jump to postAnd they could tap into the United monopoly on government traffic exIAD to London as they are an US carrier. AA already has the government contract on WASLON. They won it from UA this year. So if AA has the contract, does it allow them to use BA flights? Or, are government employees cycled through ...
Jump to postWith UA beginning LHR flights to BOS and beefing up their schedule, including three dailies to SFO, I'm curious to see how American will respond. A couple of thoughts: 1. Should AA think about SFO? With AS feed, is there a market? I know BA is there, but adding AA could be a viable addition. 2. Are ...
Jump to postWith UA beginning LHR flights to BOS and beefing up their schedule, including three dailies to SFO, I'm curious to see how American will respond. A couple of thoughts: 1. Should AA think about SFO. With AS feed, is there a market? I know BA is there, but adding AA could be a viable addition. 2. Are ...
Jump to postIts lagely a phantom profit when the government funds your largest expense(labor). Lets see the real performance this quarter on now that the government handout is over thankfully. I'm not a finance guy by any stretch, so why is a repaid government PPP loan a bad thing? UA got to pay its bill and t...
Jump to postWith BA announcing the resumption of SAN and AUS, why don't we see AA announcing these resumptions considering that they are "metal neutral", both an AA and BA flights? Particularly in AUS, this is a huge competitive advantage for AA over WN and even DL and UA. Seems AA is missing out on t...
Jump to postI flew a week ago and without TSA pre check looked like it would take more than an hour as was well into the line was well into the baggage area. Nothing unusual for Denver. Since 9/11, this airport has been a mess. Long walks, crowded trains, outrageously long security lines, inefficient layout of...
Jump to postDoes anybody know when security situation is going to be fixed? My friend said it took him a hour and 15 minutes to make it through yesterday morning and he said everything was open at both north and south checkpoints as well as the bridge. He said line moved fast but the length of it was atrocious...
Jump to postRe: Austin growth...any chance we'll see ATL and DEN year round? I know there's lots of competition, but seem to me if you're working to capture the needs of your AUS based FF, you should be serving those two markets. WN does offer connections through ATL to some East Coast destinations that WN doe...
Jump to postRe: Austin growth...any chance we'll see ATL and DEN year round? I know there's lots of competition, but seem to me if you're working to capture the needs of your AUS based FF, you should be serving those two markets.
Jump to postRE: Seattle....We also have to remember that AA faces less risk (i.e. little investment) in SEA than Delta did, giving AA more room to "play" around with routes that may or may not work. Delta has a lot to lose, AA not so much. I wonder if we'll see AA reopen their crew base. I couldn’t a...
Jump to postRE: Seattle....We also have to remember that AA faces less risk (i.e. little investment) in SEA than Delta did, giving AA more room to "play" around with routes that may or may not work. Delta has a lot to lose, AA not so much.
I wonder if we'll see AA reopen their crew base.
So, should they consider HKG, TPE, ICN, TPE and others to SEA? You can't say that you're going to serve HKG to Dallas, so you don't have to serve SEA. Two separate markets. It seems with AS' connectivity, there are boundless options.
Jump to postWhat's AA doing in SFO? Looking at schedules, seems like AA has drastically reduced SFO flights (23 today). Is this the result of its partnership with AS? AA seems to be significantly smaller that Delta, which hasn't always been the case.
Jump to postThe UA/US merger proposal was actually pre-911. I can write paragraphs about it but bottom line is the DOJ killed the idea. After forced divestitures all UA would have gained is a hub in the southeast, more employees & more debt. Aemoreira is correct, US and UA were in negotiations again prior ...
Jump to postMiss Northwest, but this merger was definitely successful. Amen. Miss those red tails a lot, but the arc of competition in the US called for bigger, and DL/NW seems to have done the best job of merging, in spite of having the least valuable hubs by some measures. Now that the pandemic has shuffled ...
Jump to postAgreed. But, these lounges are not often in the same terminal as the airline I'm flying on. I don't want to trek across an airport to gain lounge access. I hear you, I don't get exited about it either. But if the choice is between "a lounge" vs. "no lounge" at a given airport (c...
Jump to postAgreed. But, these lounges are not often in the same terminal as the airline I'm flying on. I don't want to trek across an airport to gain lounge access.
Jump to postI haven't previously considered Centurion and Priority Pass lounges in the past as reasons for not adding a club. However, these clubs do not provide access to airline personnel who can provide assistance more quickly than in the terminal. While it's certainly true that a club run by a given airlin...
Jump to postI haven't previously considered Centurion and Priority Pass lounges in the past as reasons for not adding a club. However, these clubs do not provide access to airline personnel who can provide assistance more quickly than in the terminal.
Jump to postAA: CVG I'll take the under on that one... way, way under. AA had 610K enplaned passengers in DTW in 2019. AA closed its DTW club right after 9/11 and never came back. CVG Airports' annual airports stats hyperlink doesn't give enplanments by carrier. BTS is mainline only and AA doesn't even rank in...
Jump to postBWI has an unaffiliated club in Concourse D/E that caters more towards its European and African carriers FWIW, not sure if that's in the scope of what you're looking for As a Cincinnati Admirals Club member, I'm always hopeful that more clubs will open up. More on your point, it would be great if t...
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