Speculation: Will AA continue to pull back in NYC?
#766
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From that snippet of what I read he does corporate speak very well. Saying something without coming out and being clear about it. In this case we are narrowing NYC to be O&D and leveraging our other hubs for connections because of the perceived heavy competition in NYC. Instead he spoke in nonsensical circles.
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MEM and CLE are about 1/10 and 1/8 the size of NYC, resprectively, with even smaller fractions of "premium" demand, so I don't think those are that comparable. Also, MEM was primarily a connecting hub acquired from Northwest that had no purpose with ATL nearby, from what I can remember.
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That's because UA also runs a large connecting hub at EWR. It is those connections, not just O&D, that allow UA to offer the frequency of flights and destinations that it does at EWR.
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I found this article to be somewhat reassuring. I don't understand the hate re: connecting via LHR. NYC based it's great. I use it multiple times a year and it provides late departures from Europe to NYC that you can't easily get with other hubs. I can take afternoon departures from anywhere in Europe and connect to late flights LHR-JFK. I just wish BA would add more late night flights from LHR to the continent so that I could more easily use their 7:45am day flight to Europe without having to overnight in London.
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I found this article to be somewhat reassuring. I don't understand the hate re: connecting via LHR. NYC based it's great. I use it multiple times a year and it provides late departures from Europe to NYC that you can't easily get with other hubs. I can take afternoon departures from anywhere in Europe and connect to late flights LHR-JFK. I just wish BA would add more late night flights from LHR to the continent so that I could more easily use their 7:45am day flight to Europe without having to overnight in London.
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I found this article to be somewhat reassuring. I don't understand the hate re: connecting via LHR. NYC based it's great. I use it multiple times a year and it provides late departures from Europe to NYC that you can't easily get with other hubs. I can take afternoon departures from anywhere in Europe and connect to late flights LHR-JFK. I just wish BA would add more late night flights from LHR to the continent so that I could more easily use their 7:45am day flight to Europe without having to overnight in London.
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JFK is the 2nd largest domestic O&D airport in the country and of course adds millions of international O&D passengers. AA's decision to compete very selectively at JFK (and across NYC broadly) is pretty surprising. One has to wonder how it sees itself fitting against UA/DL/B6 in this context.
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MEM and CLE are about 1/10 and 1/8 the size of NYC, resprectively, with even smaller fractions of "premium" demand, so I don't think those are that comparable. Also, MEM was primarily a connecting hub acquired from Northwest that had no purpose with ATL nearby, from what I can remember.
Really, the only similarity between MEM/CLE and NYC is that in all three cases the airlines said positive things. Duh; you're not going to say "this hub is terrible and doomed" until you actually kill it.
In other words, EWR is able to serve in UA's network as both the JFK/LGA (NYC O&D) and PHL (European connections from much of the US) roles in AA's network. JFK can't do both well for AA (or really for DL, at least it doesn't serve European connections as well as EWR does for UA or PHL does for AA). That's a clear advantage for UA.
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Isn't Jetblue mainly O&D at JFK? Is it just because they have a lower cost structure than AA that they can be so large?
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Those comments you quoted are poorly written, meritless solo data points and anecdotal at best. Largely non-constructive & contribute little to the conversation. Every station for every carrier has a few bad apples (same for every customer-facing business). What’s worse, said quotes are actually making me defend AA
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JFK also has rude employees
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JFK is even worse, especially for International to domestic connections. 1+ hour lines in immigration at 5am (I can't imagine the afternoon when many flights from Europe arrive). Then a long walk with vague signage to the AirTrain. I had a much better experience at PHL - not much of a wait in immigration at 2pm (when multiple Europe flights arrive) and no need to take a train to my domestic connection.
But I think you may be thinking of a T7 to T8 international to domestic connection, bc I have never needed to use the AirTrain to connect from an AA to AA flight.