AA long-haul flying is more limited by capacity than by fuel costs. Its stinginess with the orderbook in the 2010s left it unable to replace the 763s, 757 lie flats, and A332s it parked in COVID, to say the least of serve new demand. It doesn’t have the JFK slots or airside LGA-JFK shuttle that would enable it to service high-margin ex-NYC destinations that have no OneWorld partner - Seoul, Beijing, Frankfurt, Amsterdam. Zurich.
Originally Posted by
rudyjb
With Norse and Edelweiss announcing cuts to the U.S. due to the cost of fuel, it is not hard to imagine U.S. carriers following suit on some of their overseas routes. Which overseas routes do you think are likely to get the axe on AA if we get to that point? My top guesses are DFW-BNE (insane amount of capacity from DFW-South Pacific) and one of the recently added Athens flights (probably JFK; the season is much shorter this year).