Originally Posted by MAH4546
It has to do with getting rid of high-paying mainline stations, and replacing them with lower-paying Eagle stations. Unfortunate, but one of the cuts that keeps AA as the most financially stable legacy airline.
Huh?
Assuming decent loads on the maddogs to DFW, the unit cost to haul a butt on that route gets
higher on the eagle metal.
If AA would bring back PIT-JFK, they would fill it with international traffic.
AA has had eagle on the ORD runs for years--they've chased the frequency (5x or so/day) rather than capacity. I don't know of too many people who are going to tolerate the CRJ all the way to DFW (presumably to connect west/south) rather than AA or UA via ORD or LUV or HP/US via PHX or LAS or US on the E170 if heading to DFW.
Oh well.