New AA to fly banked hubs again beginning next August [2014]

Surely, I’m not the most qualified person on FT to explain anything about airline scheduling, but my experience lately has been AA offers lots of connections that are just a few minutes above the minimum legal time. Meaning if your incoming flight is on time and you go straight to the next gate you’ll make it but there’s no time for delays or lounge visits (or schedule changes).

Most recently, I had the choice between a 60-minute connection in MIA or a 50-minute connection in CLT. Those both involved taking the first flight of the day out of my originating city so if I didn’t like those options the only other choice was to overnight.