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Old Apr 15, 2019, 9:45 pm
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sfozrhfco
 
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American has to cut flights and they are choosing the weakest ones. It just so happens that many of the routes out of JFK are their weakest ones. They get a waiver for few months so they won't immediately lose the slots. It will be interesting if later in the year, they re-add them back or just decide they would be better off eliminating them all together. If they can't make money on routes such as SEA-JFK in the middle of the summer, things will not look any better during the dead of winter.

No other carriers are cutting anything from JFK and in fact other carriers like B6 and DL are still growing. It is more a matter of AA weakness at JFK than runway construction alone.
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