Originally Posted by
ffay005
As of today, the ORD schedule does not have anything to do with connections to Asia. Only DEL-HEL-ORD works out nicely with AY+AA (or DEL-HEL-JFK on AY+AY) but the outbound ORD-HEL-DEL is terrible.
Plus it makes very little sense to start with as there is non-stop AA triple on ORD-DEL daily
Originally Posted by
ffay005
The schedule follows that of the AY daily to JFK, with AY feeder traffic from/to Moscow, St Petersburg, the Baltic capitals and Stockholm, so AA has in fact taken connections into consideration although not to Asia but to other markets instead.
Absolutely. I was on a AY flight from the former east block today and I was the only passenger NOT connecting through, I'd estimate 80-90% were heading for AY5 to JFK.
President Putin said today that he'd like to see visa taken away from RUS/USA and if that happens the market will continue to boom exponentially..