Originally Posted by
ELAL
There are plenty of passengers who fly from Israel to the US, by flying LY to LHR and connect from LHR with AA, it seems to be a cheap connection
Unfortunately, the majority of people using our code share flights with American Airlines are doing so from our gateways in JFK and LAX. Not many are using the European routings as we had hoped.
Originally Posted by
JohnnieZ
Where are all the thoughts of MIA or ORD coming from? Seeing how expensive it was for LY to close these stations, and the cost of reopening them, I don't expect them to reappear on the route map anytime soon. Also, keep in mind that if they DO return, they will probably not be direct flights (MIA via JFK, ORD via YYZ was the norm back in the day).
We will not be returning to ORD or MIA anytime soon. There are those within the management that prefer a return to a non-stop MIA and a very small minority who want to return to non-stop ORD so that we can use the American Airlines hub to grab more offline traffic. The outgoing CEO was firmly opposed to ORD because he though that there was not enough traffic from ORD alone and that all traffic would be low yielding vacation traffic.