Originally Posted by
GetAA81Back2ARN
This seems a bit strange. Starting next summer the Russian passengers will actually get a worse connection than today.
Added up, the travel time will increase with close to 3 hours, one segment will be operated by SU. Is this really a profitable move made by AY? On the press relase they claim that 25% of the passengers are connecting to USA.
With AA opening nonstop DMO-JFK, AY might lose some passengers that want to avoid SU and continue to earn AA/AY-miles.
By the way: have AY had a lot of misconnects on the SVO-flight to and from JFK?
I think the new timetable makes sense. I believe the JFK-HEL inbound frequently delayed the HEL-SVO flight. If the JFK-HEL is more than 30 minutes late, then the SVO flight had to go without it, resulting in re-routings, eg on BT HEL-RIX-SVO.
Besides, the SVO-HEL-JFK flight is sold on price. I don't think they'll lose many (if any) customers because of the extra hours wait. It'll still be one of the fastest (if not THE fastest) one-stop connection from SVO to JFK.
As for the AA flight, that will be DME-ORD, not JFK.
http://www.domodedovo.ru/en/main/new...s_rel/?ID=1955
https://www.aa.com/aa/pubcontent/en_...Routes.jsp#nir