Originally Posted by
PsiFighter37
American announced that they are going to cut back on international flying due to delays receiving Dreamliners from Boeing. Do people think UA could be better-positioned to take a larger share of market share permanently as a result? It seems like AA is going to have to cede a number of European leisure markets next summer, which UA has been very aggressive on.
Late delivery of Dreamliners is in part a convenient excuse. AA will put its available fleet to best use, and the least beneficial routes to AA turn out to be these new international leisure routes. The international routes out of PHL really surprised me, PHL is not a big connector hub for AA and PHL as a market bleeds traffic to EWR. With DP's resignation, we can look forward (hopefully) to some new ideas about where AA is headed with routes, aircraft and onboard product.
Not sure this means much for UA.