AAerSTL

Your consultancy doesn't subscribe to Diio?!?!

iadisgreat

Where are all the LAA mainline planes going? ORD? DFW (not to the east coast as far as I can tell)? MIA?

ty97

In the LAX expansion thread, it was mentioned that AA overextended themselves at LAX, thus causing some issues at T4 with gate crowding, etc. This may be part of move to alleviate that, meaning the mainline planes may not be going anywhere (from LAX at least)

SeattleDavid

This may be true for March, but the summer schedule shows mainline planes doing SFO - LAX, so I think the title of this thread is a bit overdramatic.

ty97

AA only "locks" the schedule approximately three months out IME. Future schedules are placeholders and subject to change. This does not mean that mainline won't be back in June, but we won't know for sure (either way) until the schedule for that period locks.

Eastbay1K

"[S]eems to be going away" is overdramatic?

I wouldn't be surprised if this is the new "normal" for the route, with only an occasional mainline for aircraft placement in the future.

SST

Just set out to book my next month's LAX business trips from home in SFO. No longer. Looking at Jan 17/18, ALL flights between these cities are RJs on Compass-- not even the 4-5 mainline flights they've had this last year. I *DETEST* the extra 1/2 hour you have to budget to use the ridiculous "Eagle's Nest" remote terminal and its hokey bus service, each direction.

No thanks.

I travel this route at least 2x/month, and I will not voluntarily inconvenience myself like this when WN can get me to BUR, SNA *and* LAX on mainline equipment to terminals where getting to a rental car is simple. VX works well for SAN, LAX and SNA. DL and UA are even better.

Guess this is my last year of EXP status since 30k+ R/t's of flying to SoCal is now up for grabs, since they've once again pimped SFO out by failing to be competitive, once again.

Oh well, I'll probably save money using WN's companion pass, which they extended to me for a year.

AA *was* my loyal favorite, EXP 15 years---- now, I spend the remaining 1.8m miles, I guess. Thanks, guys, but it was your move and you blew it.

lds89

this may be temporary / seasonal

Looking out at April 10 and beyond I start seeing mainline flights again

bchandler02

Eagles nest isnt that fun, but isnt the worst thing on the planet. The E175 is a fairly nice ride though.

golfingboy

And the AC while small is way better than T4 with the ongoing renovations. Win some, lose some. Also I don't think taking the bus from T6 is that much longer than walking to a gate at the end of T4. Maybe 5-7 minutes top. Never had to wait more than 2 minutes in the bus holding area.

Dr. HFH

Apparently AA management didn't think that retaining your individual business provided as much benefit to the company as making the aircraft changes which they've made.

rjw242

Smart move on AA's part. Customers who freak out over such trivial issues aren't worth keeping around, in my experience.

iadisgreat

This contributes to my continual wonder of what happened to the 737s! I think the answer is DFW/MIA/DFW, but I know it isn't DCA anymore.

JY1024

This topic came up a few weeks ago; let's consolidate the discussion in one place. /Moderator

uscjeff

Ive seen the T6 bus line to the nest all the way past the bathrooms as you are coming up that ramp from gate(s) 64, etc that Alaska uses. If cutting it close that is a reason for stress.

Agree with all the above though - no problems with the E75 - just the bus situation.