If there is a nonstop option available, I think any corporate customer would take that over a connection, even if it's just a 45 minute hop to Seattle. If that weren't the case, then there would be no PDX-TYO flight at all. AA announced plans to build up a SEA TPAC gateway before COVID hit (Februar...
Jump to postIf cute how you list all those problems for Delta but act like American doesn't have the same issue. AA/BA aren't tossing a ton of money losing capacity on SEA-LHR, just like DL/VS AA is going to have the same exact limits to China that Delta/United will. Its highly unlikely anyone is flying going ...
Jump to postI 100% agree with the 37’s from a passenger point of view as being played. I’m retired now and fly a lot on AA supporting my business. I’m a huge fan of their NEO’s. Wish AS liked then as much as I do. But I spent a ton of years at AS and they’ve never made a secret about how much they value the Bo...
Jump to postBrickell305 wrote:I think the no change fee on BE is temporary due to COVID. The removal of change fees for other fares are the permanent change.
I think it'll be hard for them to chop too hard at both LAX and PHX. That really leaves them with little west coast of their own. Chopping at LAX has already started and makes a little more sense due to the new partnership with AS, who is not weak at LAX. However, AS is still pretty weak at PHX, so...
Jump to postI think it'll be hard for them to chop too hard at both LAX and PHX. That really leaves them with little west coast of their own. Chopping at LAX has already started and makes a little more sense due to the new partnership with AS, who is not weak at LAX. However, AS is still pretty weak at PHX, so ...
Jump to postAmerican couldn't make ORD work to Asia. I would have to bet that they have much more connecting passenger traffic there compared to Alaska in Seattle. The big difference is that no one in the Pacific Northwest will want to connect backwards to ORD or DFW. Is Seattle that large with local demand an...
Jump to postLots of international routes cut: http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2020/American-Airlines-Resets-International-Network-for-Remainder-of-2020-Through-Summer-2021-OPS-DIS-07/default.aspx With the apparent even lesser need for widebodies anytime soon, what does this do to the fleet? Seems likely th...
Jump to postAA announces it will apply for Seattle to Shanghai and confirms Seattle to London/Bangalore launch for 2021. AA will "no longer operate the following routes": - CLT-BCN/FCO/CDG - DFW-MUC - LAX-HKG/EZE/GRU/PEK/PVG - MIA-BSB/MXP - ORD-VCE - PHL-TXL/BUD/DBV ORD-KRK/BUD/PRG and PHL-CMN will n...
Jump to postOnly daily AA nonstops from NYC-Florida are to MIA, the rest are Saturday only except for LGA-MCO which will be 1x daily in July. Probably more impact to the ULCC carriers who are jumping in with a lot of capacity on NYC-Florida next month, ie NK Well, it does hit arizona and texas also. And I'm th...
Jump to postAA is ending all flights out of OAK effective June 3, 2020. The OAG thread had AA ending PHX-OAK in August, but it's been moved up. https://twitter.com/timjue/status/1267527968630247424 AA is operating 1x daily PHX-OAK right now vs 3-4x daily before coronavirus. It was going to be suspended until t...
Jump to postAnother hail event in TUL requiring inspections of aircraft according to JonNYC And another hail event forecasted today with destructive hail possible. Hoping it misses the airport. https://twitter.com/MikeCollierWX/status/1255174235594674183 It's almost like AA is fishing for a massive insurance p...
Jump to postI think anything parked at ROW has a pretty low chance of returning. Maybe not zero, but low. We KNOW the old 737s, 767s, 333s, and 190s are being retired and they are there. The fact that the 332 is being sent there means that AA is at least contemplating not bringing them back. They could, and may...
Jump to postSeems like the title of this thread needs to be changed since the topic is now much more about LAX being in jeopardy. I mean, the fact that LAX (and JFK) are now just spokes (even if stated to be temporary) very much merits that discussion. That said, LAX isn't going away any more than PHX is. I thi...
Jump to postThey'll be smaller, but they'll also be streamlined. Hopefully that'll help them claw out of this hole easier. Still hope they can somehow manage to trade off the MAX and go all 319/320/321 long-term. Why do you hope this? Single aisle, 6 across narrow bodies are essentially all the same, Max and N...
Jump to postThey'll be smaller, but they'll also be streamlined. Hopefully that'll help them claw out of this hole easier.
Still hope they can somehow manage to trade off the MAX and go all 319/320/321 long-term.
Boof02671 wrote:The merger agreement with the DOJ prevented them from dehubing for a certain time period.
Why do people want this to happen so badly? If they were going to de-hub PHX after the merger, they certainly would have at least started by now. PHX is a great airport. Who in their right mind would rather connect through LAX instead of PHX? Nobody, that's who. LAX plays an obvious role, but it can...
Jump to postI suppose part of the question is how much does it cost to retire them now, how much would it cost to make that decision in two months, and how much visibility do they have to the MAX return to service? Presumably retirement would involve work that costs $ and risks human contact, which would be be...
Jump to postQantas59 wrote:Please correct me if I'm wrong, but with the arrival of AA1797 (N191AN) into LAS last evening it appears as if 757 service at AA has ceased - at least for now.
AA sent two more B737-800's to ROW today, Mar.27, acft N909AN and N913AN. Looks like these are both 20 years old. How old are their oldest 738s, and are there any other 738s at ROW for storage? Oldest B737-800 is N901AN, delivered 7-2-99. I've only seen seven B737-800 go to ROW, but I believe these...
Jump to postanymaninfc wrote:AA sent two more B737-800's to ROW today, Mar.27, acft N909AN and N913AN.
This is **SPECULATION ONLY** but some of AA's 777s and 737s are over 20 years old now, what are the chances some of these first frames will never return to service? All depends on how fast service rebounds, but probably a chance for a few aircraft. I think domestic service will come back faster tha...
Jump to postThe way it is trending, we will be one of the last places for it to end - we are currently on pace to pass China and probably Italy in cases and thus deaths. Currently not enough info coming out of Africa to really make a judgement there. But Europe will certainly get it under control before we do....
Jump to postSome of the comments on that NYT comment board are pretty disgusting. As an MQ employee, I dont want to see AAG go belly up, obviously, but this really should be a lesson to the airline on management. In regards to the fleet, simplification is a near and mid term solution, as well as downsizing wit...
Jump to postSo just to summarize what's happening in the last few days, would it be fair to predict that AA mainline will emerge with only the following? A319/20/21 CEO & NEO B738/M A332 B788/9 B772/3 Seems like it would be more cost efficient to have fewer types like this, no? They aren't gonna need as ma...
Jump to postSo the E190s were supposed to be retired at the end of this summer (likely Q3 2020). But then their lives were recently extended beyond that due to the MAX grounding and A321neo delays. Should be interesting to see if that decision gets reversed yet again and they’re phased out quickly. We know tha...
Jump to postLooks like they’re starting to park E190s as well as wide bodies and B752s at ROW. So the E190s were supposed to be retired at the end of this summer (likely Q3 2020). But then their lives were recently extended beyond that due to the MAX grounding and A321neo delays. Should be interesting to see i...
Jump to postNo, it looks like the first new 787-8, N870AX, hasn't been delivered yet. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n870ax#2426f96b Looks like it's on its way to DFW from PAE now. Also, some earlier discussion last week was that AA might speed up Oasis. Any further confirmation on this? Are these...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/illinicmi" class="quote" target="_blank">illinicmi</a> (<a href="#11" class="quote">Reply 11</a>):<br/><i>Sounds like it's been a really bad HOU...
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Jump to postI must say I'm getting a bit of a kick out of the Russians here implying that there is more relevance to Ukraine shooting down a passenger plane 13 years ago than of the separatists shooting down a military plane yesterday. It was cloudy. Any theory involving visual identification of the aircraft is...
Jump to postSKY News has indicated that they also saw the separatists reporting that they had shot down a cargo plane, and it was picked up by a few Russian sites/blogs. Then once word that this plane was missing came out, it was all scrubbed.
Jump to postFor those who think this thread is premature, I invite you to point out the glowing successes of this search and rescue operation so far. Some of us have clearly missed them. I don't think the investigation needs to be complete in order to discuss the problems. I'd say 48 hours with no hint of where...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ASA" class="quote" target="_blank">ASA</a> (<a href="#179" class="quote">Reply 179</a>):<br/><i>Are you suggesting something along the lines of ...
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Jump to postI apologize if this has been asked, but can the 777 dump fuel?
Jump to postNaturally, since this new "floating item" was photographed from the air, and it's nighttime again, we won't hear anything for another 12 hours or so. And by then it will probably have floated away.
I'm still amazed at how little we know about what happened.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/damirc" class="quote" target="_blank">damirc</a> (<a href="#85" class="quote">Reply 85</a>):<br/><i>Odd. The point 153 miles south of Pho Quoc i...
Jump to postApparently Vietnamese media reporting their navy has confirmed it crashed into the sea. Take it as you will.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/mas-aircraf...ssing--says-airline-023820132.html
That video is amazing. Agreed that after watching the spin more people weren't killed. Not wanting to sound morbid, but if hitting the seawall "opened up" the back of the plane, I can see where there were some very strong centrifugal forces during that spin that could have thrown people in broken se...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LLA001" class="quote" target="_blank">LLA001</a> (<a href="#163" class="quote">Reply 163</a>):<br/><i>Where is the flight recorder located at 77...
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