Originally Posted by
Adelphos
I was wondering why AA hasn't gotten those slots back faster.
Originally Posted by
lowfareair
AA is the one that needs to move here - they are slot squatting at the moment, as evidenced by PHL-LGA going up to six weekday flights in May.
What a shame. In May! Well, that's probably your answer - AA doesn't want the slots. Seems like the more slots they have, the more money they burn.
Originally Posted by
Cledaybuck
True, but AA's actions in NY seem to show that they only sort of kind of care about being a relevant carrier to NYC based customers.
They don't care. For 10+ years they don't have any idea what to do with NY, except for a brief couple of years right before the merger. Right now, however, I think is the lowest I've ever seen. Seems like their latest strategy is to fly more LGA-PHL and chase all their premium transcon customers away with the crap condition the A321Ts are in.
Unless you like EWR it's very hard not to fly DL in NYC.