Originally Posted by
rtalk25
Frequency does decrease between November from 5x daily to 3x daily in March. Maybe frequency or capacity will go back up again in the summer. PWM might do well seasonally.
DCA-PHL wasn't reduced to fund DCA-ATL, but I do wonder if it's an option for AA down the road to fund something else.
a. Do any customers fly PHL-DCA or DCA-PHL as O&D, over the logical choice Amtrak? I don't think so, but I could be wrong.
I think someone (
FWAAA?) has posted the O&D numbers for DCA-PHL, and my recollection is that it was single digits per day. If I read the data I just pulled from the BTS correctly (never done this before, so I'm not sure), there were 100 reservations flown for DCA-PHL and 109 for PHL-DCA in 2015 Q1 (most but not all with one passenger). That's closer to 1 passenger per day each way than 10. As far as I'm concerned, that's consistent with zero O&D traffic, which makes sense.
This was also discussed last month:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/us-ai...d-further.html
b. I assume the primary role of the flight is for DCA-PHL-Europe connections and return. I believe most Caribbean connections can be handled through DCA-CLT anyways or DCA-MIA.
Not to mention that IAD-LHR-XXX and BWI-LHR-XXX are options for WAS-Europe that weren't possible on pmUS, which reduces the need to funnel WAS-Europe traffic through PHL.