AA In Canada - Speculate Please
Oct 30, 2014, 9:32 pm
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AA In Canada - Speculate Please
I'm curious what everyone's thoughts are to AA expanding to various Canadian cities. I'm a US Preferred flyer and previously, there were great options to most places in Canada through Air Canada with Star Alliance. Now, there are no Canadian airlines in OneWorld. The only option is WestJet, but from my understanding, you can't earn miles with them when booked through West Jet (and they don't fly to my home airport of PHL anyway).
So, does anyone have any insight on what AA may do with Canada? For me personally, I'd love for them to expand to the cities they aren't already in such as Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Charlottetown, Moncton, Victoria, St. John's, Kelowna, Thunder Bay, etc.
So, does anyone have any insight on what AA may do with Canada? For me personally, I'd love for them to expand to the cities they aren't already in such as Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Charlottetown, Moncton, Victoria, St. John's, Kelowna, Thunder Bay, etc.
Oct 30, 2014, 10:16 pm
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I'm curious what everyone's thoughts are to AA expanding to various Canadian cities. I'm a US Preferred flyer and previously, there were great options to most places in Canada through Air Canada with Star Alliance. Now, there are no Canadian airlines in OneWorld. The only option is WestJet, but from my understanding, you can't earn miles with them when booked through West Jet (and they don't fly to my home airport of PHL anyway).
So, does anyone have any insight on what AA may do with Canada? For me personally, I'd love for them to expand to the cities they aren't already in such as Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Charlottetown, Moncton, Victoria, St. John's, Kelowna, Thunder Bay, etc.
So, does anyone have any insight on what AA may do with Canada? For me personally, I'd love for them to expand to the cities they aren't already in such as Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, Charlottetown, Moncton, Victoria, St. John's, Kelowna, Thunder Bay, etc.
Just like I said in the Pacific Northwest thread, AA has bigger problems to solve at the moment which are more pressing that trying to serve tons of secondary markets which it has little brand recognition in or demand for.
If anything, as operations are merged I would look for AA to being drawing down some routes and parking some aircraft in order to reduce capacity. This has been the case in all of the prior mergers and will likely happen here as well.
Oct 31, 2014, 3:47 am
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AS serves Kelowna and Victoria, so you can earn AA miles and EQMs as well as checked bag fee waivers. I don't know if AA code shares to those cities, but that doesn't matter much anyway in most cases.
Oct 31, 2014, 2:48 pm
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I would tend to believe that AA will depend upon AS codeshares. Maybe, with BOS being much bigger now AA will do some eastern Canadian routes on Eagle into BOS for connections going south. But I would not count on it.
Oct 31, 2014, 3:01 pm
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As noted, AA is the foreign airline with the most flights operating into Canada. At YYZ it is the #3 airline after AC and WS. And that was before the merger with US. AA flies to Waterloo and Edmonton. Of the remaining cities not served, YWG is the most likely to have a large enough market to appeal to AA. Agree the NW is a big hole, but AS and AA will get closer now the DL is becoming more aggressive in SEA, and AS flies into some smaller western Canadian cities. As well, code shares with WS and its new regional carrier should eventually handle any of these missing markets. But I don't foresee many new AA flights up here.
Oct 31, 2014, 3:26 pm
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If only the AA-WS partnership was like the AA-AS partnership... (primarily for earning EQMs)...or even a partnership where one could earn EQMs on a WS flight so long as that WS flight did not touch the US...
Oct 31, 2014, 6:33 pm
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AA's Canadian network works great for me, because they have tons of YYZ service and are the only ones who run scheduled transborder from YKF.
AA had BOS to YYZ and YUL for some time on Eagle. Its possible, but I see infill to certain hub markets first. Given that UA is doing YXU-EWR to go along with YXU-ORD, I'd think AA might consider YKF-JFK at some point.
AA had BOS to YYZ and YUL for some time on Eagle. Its possible, but I see infill to certain hub markets first. Given that UA is doing YXU-EWR to go along with YXU-ORD, I'd think AA might consider YKF-JFK at some point.