Originally Posted by
nkedel
I'd certainly love to see AA fly to one of the TYO airports out of the Bay Area, but given that it would be a huge reversal of AA's diminishing commitment to the Bay Area market, I don't see it happening.
Right now the only way I can see more traffic out of here that isn't just increasing the frequencies into the big hub/focus cities is if AA acquires somebody that other direct flights from here (eg a B6 merger would bring back BOS) ... right now we don't even have a nonstop Las Vegas flight any longer.
I agree- I don't think AA is coming back into the Bay Area in any big fashion anytime soon (unless they bought either AS or VX AND retained the route network from the purchase, neither of which are mortal locks by any stretch of the imagination). SFO and SJC are just going to be spokes for the forseaable future.
There's plenty of longhaul service they could introduce nonstop from ORD/MIA/DFW/JFK/LAX that makes more sense than either building a focus city in TYO or SFO/SJC.