Speculation: What will the new AA do in the north-eastern US?

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Jan 10, 2015, 11:40 am

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Originally Posted by lhl12

Are there any other US airports that have successful connecting operations of that sort out of terminals that are as physically disjoint as Terminals B (AA Domestic) and E (International) are at Logan?

EWR isn't exactly enjoyable if you're going A to C or vice versa

JFK would be another good example of having to switch terminals entirely

LAX, with T7 for UA and TBIT for the rest of *A

Jan 10, 2015, 11:49 am

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Originally Posted by cmn.jcs

To some extent, ORD is that way. IIRC, the only non-AA international flights out of the AA terminal are on JL, with everything else being out of T5. LAX is similar (though IIRC, the airside connector between T4 and TBIT is currently under construction).

Doesn't Iberia also use the AA terminal?

Jan 10, 2015, 12:18 pm

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Originally Posted by bridge29

The combined airline essentially already does have quite a focus city in BOS. They allow for connections, too.

Agreed. Boston is already a focus city and, I'd argue, a de facto hub (albeit a small one).

On Friday, Jan 9, AA+US scheduled 86 mainline departures from BOS plus the assorted US Express flights. For comparison, DCA (which US began calling a "hub" late in 2013 or early in 2014) had 95 mainline departures scheduled on AA+US yesterday. Of course, DCA also featured well over a hundred express flights in addition to the mainline capacity.

Jan 10, 2015, 1:24 pm

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Originally Posted by FWAAA

Over half of them are flights to NYC, PHL, and DCA. BOS may be a fairly large station for AA/US, but most of it is NEC travel.

Jan 10, 2015, 1:28 pm

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Originally Posted by aamilesslave

Doesn't Iberia also use the AA terminal?

Looks like it--I've updated my post. Thanks for the correction.

Jan 10, 2015, 2:59 pm

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Originally Posted by lhl12

As much as I'd love to see BOS become an international hub for AA like JFK (or perhaps PHL) - collecting domestic traffic and connecting it on to Europe and Asia (and vice versa on the return) -- it seems to me that the Terminal B/E separation at Logan makes that pretty tough to do.

I don't think that AA would want to turn BOS into an international hub. There's no need for that with PHL and JFK. However, there is a fair amount of international O&D traffic there. And having those people head south first to JFK and PHL to do so isn't being that competitive. Especially now that the combined carrier has such a large customer base there. The fact that so many European destinations are within the range of the 75Ls, in addition to the fact that there is other connecting traffic feeding into BOS from cities in the NE as well as cities like LAX and DCA, makes doing so less risky.

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Yes. ORD immediately comes to mind. Also, LAX. At PHL, if one is connecting onto a flight out of Terminal F, they have to take a shuttle bus after clearing C&I. At other airline hubs, EWR is this way when UA flights arrive into Terminal B. IAD is not exactly convenient either. However, this is only a matter with arriving international flights. Outbound flights would still use Terminal B at BOS. And would actually be quite easy to connect to.