Is AA actively trying to kill SFO-LAX?!
May 24, 2019, 3:46 pm
#121
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Fly Southwest. AA is absolutely saying they can't run those routes profitably, but they still think AA travelers won't switch other business away because of these inconveniences. I can't imagine any AA flyer who has work stuff in the West who can use AA exclusively. This even includes walking the long bridge across to catch a WN late flight when I have missed the last AA connecting flight in PHX.
May 25, 2019, 1:24 am
#122
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I didn’t believe AA didn’t care until the elimination of the evening flight.
Things like inconvenience happens on other very profitable routes like MIA-LAX evening 772 arrival to remote bus gates, so I just thought they were tone deaf. But this is hard to fathom.
Things like inconvenience happens on other very profitable routes like MIA-LAX evening 772 arrival to remote bus gates, so I just thought they were tone deaf. But this is hard to fathom.
Jun 10, 2019, 11:48 am
#125
Join Date: May 2017
Location: San Francisco
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The NB-operated flights that have been running this route the past few months have had brutal cancellation rates. Just in the past week, my A319-operated LAX-SFO connection last week and A321-operated SFO-LAX today were both cancelled around T-5.
Jun 10, 2019, 12:05 pm
#126
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Fly Southwest. AA is absolutely saying they can't run those routes profitably, but they still think AA travelers won't switch other business away because of these inconveniences. I can't imagine any AA flyer who has work stuff in the West who can use AA exclusively. This even includes walking the long bridge across to catch a WN late flight when I have missed the last AA connecting flight in PHX.
Ended up buying a new ticket on Delta.
Jun 10, 2019, 4:31 pm
#129
Join Date: May 2017
Location: San Francisco
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I hope not — it was operating at 11-12x daily and was dropped down to 7-8x daily earlier this Spring. At least I'd hope they'd shift them around and return to flying SFO-LAX in the evening.
Jun 10, 2019, 6:53 pm
#130
Join Date: Apr 2011
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What annoying is that AA still loads a full schedule at 11 months out and doesn’t revise the schedule (and thus existing bookings) until 3-4 months out. It’s arguably bait-and-switch and they could do better about the coordination with their trans-Pacific flights.
Jun 11, 2019, 3:17 pm
#131
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: San Jose, CA USA
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Added to that, the fact that any service form SFO-LAX will be trashed when there are a few clouds in the sky in the Bay Area and they shut down 28L for flow control, and it makes for exquisite misery and abuse
The OP is correct. This is not an O and D route, and is only a feeder to LA. AA abandoned service from SFO and SJC substantially decades ago, and we in the Bay Area have to do work arounds to deal with it. Such is life. I fly on AAirpass a lot, and frequently take DL form either SJC or SFO before connecting to AA's LAX flights. Defending AA for service on this route strikes a raw nerve in this frequent flyer.
Jun 23, 2019, 10:07 am
#133
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With the most recent schedule change, the 6:15p flight mentioned here now departs at 8:30p which is much better suited for SYD and HKG connections.