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Old Aug 21, 2018 | 8:23 pm
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Originally Posted by cedric
That goes against what was mentioned in the video accompanying today's press release. JFK was briefly mentioned and AA's goal is to focus on business markets from JFK.
Well they just cut service to Frankfurt and added it to Dubrovnik, is the goal that Philly is supposed to focus on leisure markets by cutting business routes and not replacing them anywhere?

As for JFK, killing the ZRH route is not a great example of attempting to focus on business markets.

Seems very hard to work out any sort of strategy here. Clearly they want to focus trans-Atlantic flying through Philly, but route selection remains a mystery and I have no idea how they think they're going to maintain any sort of foothold on the NYC market by hacking away at the route network. Maybe they should just sell the JFK slots to United--I hear that they figured out leaving was a bad idea despite the strong presence at EWR.
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