Originally Posted by MAH4546
Iberia is not pulling out Miami. They will still fly Miami-Madrid. It is actually good news for AA. For AA:
1) No compietition to Central American on Iberia, who usually offered lower fares to the local traffic.
2) More Iberia passengers from Madrid connecting onto AA.
The real losers in this situation, though, are not Iberia or MIA. They are the five cities in Central America and Mexico that will no longer be served by Iberia: Cancun, Managua, San Savlador, San Pedro Sula, and San Jose.
Agree. I would like to speculate that this might even create the possibility of AA increasing MIA-MAD-MIA to 2x daily, especially given the very high pax loads that seem to be prevalent on this route almost year-round.