AA appears to be revising its ANC service pretty drastically. Right now no nonstops from the lower 48 show up after mid-August; however AA has added a nonstop LAX-ANC during June, July and part of August, which will operate along with existing/seasonal PHX-ANC and DFW-ANC services, both of which show up on aa.com.

I'm not surprised to see PHX-ANC disappear; it was a former US route and I doubt it ever did much for the bottom line. With AS and DL throwing nukes at each other up and down the west coast, cutting prices to ANC to incredibly cheap levels, AA would be almost certain to lose their shirts trying to serve ANC from a secondary hub in the off-season.

And with the AS purchase of VX, my hunch is that smart money at AA is looking at the whole west coast and shaking its head.

If anything, I wouldn't be even slightly surprised to see AA (in a year or two at the earliest) really upping the pressure on AS to join OW. AS' partnership with DL is obviously toast, and with the VX acquisition, AS' inherited hub at SFO would fill a huge gap in Oneworld's network - were AS a member.

Doesn't much help the OP, but I also would expect the AA schedule to be tweaked - quite a lot - between now and mid-summer/autumn. Maybe some 2K mile sectors will still show up.

ETA - look here for other route announcements - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...an-2016-a.html