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Old Apr 7, 2019 | 7:37 am
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Originally Posted by LBJ
JFK-BOS goes back to 5x daily in July. Looks like it's just a temporary reduction.
Looks like this change is going to be in place at least through November. Only one daily flight. There are numerous reductions among the AE flights with majority of destinations (CLE, CMH, BWI, YUL, etc.) going down to just one flight per day. Granted this may be mainly driven by the runway closure, but I won't be surprised that most of those cuts will stick.

LAS also permanently goes down to two daily flights. SAN/SEA goes down to 1x daily.

Side note - flying between PIT/JFK to connect to TATL flight is very frustrating. AA charges more to fly PIT-JFK to connect to a TATL flight even though the flight loads are very poor on this route. For our upcoming trip to LHR, we are connecting in DCA on the outbound to JFK

I suppose this is what happens when you lose economics of scale necessitating to charge a premium to make the "hub" profitable.

Side note 2 - AA is now definitely feeling the squeeze at PHL operationally after rebanking PHL (eliminated two banks and made the remaining ones bigger) and trying to make PHL the main TATL hub where there are severe infrastructure limitations. On our PIT-PHL flights its becoming more common that we have to sit on the tarmac at PIT because there is no gate or space to park at PHL if we arrive early.

Last edited by golfingboy; Apr 7, 2019 at 11:32 am
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