Aug 8, 2019, 8:27 am
Last edit by: reeg2
American Airlines new routes announcements
AA announced these new routes 8 August 2019:
DFW-TLV (Tel Aviv) 3x weekly 789 year-round, starting 09/2020
ORD-BUD (Budapest), 4x weekly 788 seasonal, runs 05/2020-10/2020
ORD-KRK (Krakow) , 5x weekly 788 seasonal, runs 05/2020-10/2020
ORD-PRG (Prague), 5x weekly 788 seasonal, runs 05/2020-10/2020
PHL-CMN (Casablanca) 3x weekly 752 seasonal, runs 06/2020-09/2020
New flights will be available for purchase Aug. 12, with the exception of TLV, which will be available for purchase Oct. 10.
See post #1 for more detail
AA announced these new routes 8 August 2019:
DFW-TLV (Tel Aviv) 3x weekly 789 year-round, starting 09/2020
ORD-BUD (Budapest), 4x weekly 788 seasonal, runs 05/2020-10/2020
ORD-KRK (Krakow) , 5x weekly 788 seasonal, runs 05/2020-10/2020
ORD-PRG (Prague), 5x weekly 788 seasonal, runs 05/2020-10/2020
PHL-CMN (Casablanca) 3x weekly 752 seasonal, runs 06/2020-09/2020
New flights will be available for purchase Aug. 12, with the exception of TLV, which will be available for purchase Oct. 10.
See post #1 for more detail
August 2019 international expansion announced
Aug 8, 2019, 10:39 am
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Aug 8, 2019, 10:49 am
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KLM does not fly to Casablanca. Transavia does - enjoy your flight on that 189 seat , 28 inch seat pitch, all Y 738.
JFK would defeat the purpose of the flight - to connect AA's domestic network with AT's African network.
PHL is fine as an international gateway. They just really need to get that Flagship lounge built.
Aug 8, 2019, 11:14 am
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Aug 8, 2019, 11:29 am
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From North America, AC flies YUL-CMN on A330. I also wonder how much traffic AA can drive on US-CMN, it's similar to UA testing Africa on EWR-CPT going 3x weekly, but EWR/CPT are both wealthy markets and can rely on O&D, not so sure about PHL/CMN.
Aug 8, 2019, 12:54 pm
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However the airport is very much focused on expanding cargo facilities not passenger facilities.
Aug 8, 2019, 2:30 pm
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Have you been to Newark? it is not wealthy! Admittedly, Philly as a city has a high poverty rate but it has a lot of old money too and a lot of suburbs are quite wealthy!
Aug 8, 2019, 2:39 pm
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AT offers connections to a number of African cities without having to add the hours and tedium of LHR and BA. Given Iberia's withdrawal of some African routes, SN joining *A, etc. this might be an opportunity well worth exploring with a 757 and measuring the value of expansion.
Aug 8, 2019, 2:42 pm
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So it looks like going forward AA's new route strategy is to fly non-premium, no-competition market with their Economy Class-heavy aircrafts, and mostly giving up their competition in the front and on premium routes to UA and DL?
Aug 8, 2019, 2:52 pm
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The biggest problem is that AA has mostly given up in JFK (and in NYC in general). They canceled a lot of connecting frequencies from JFK so now people are stuck with a JFK-LGA inter-terminal transfer, which in turn makes their international expansion from JFK difficult.
Aug 8, 2019, 3:39 pm
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Nonstop to Casablanca
“You're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong!”
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/american-airlines-new-routes-morocco-
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/american-airlines-new-routes-morocco-
Aug 8, 2019, 3:46 pm
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I am kind of with PHL on this one (I think AA agrees as well). SInce so much of PHL's TATL flying is seasonal. it really does not make sense to build a bunch of gates that are only going to be used for three months out of the year. If I ran PHL I would focus on bringing in non-passenger revenue (like cargo) to help reduce the CPE and improving the "moon buggy" arrivals process.
Aug 8, 2019, 4:41 pm
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