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 13, 2019, 7:17 am
#77
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: PHL
Programs: AAdvantage EXP
Posts: 67
PHL Press release -
https://www.phl.org/drupalbin/media/...e%208-8-19.pdf
Considering the rumors/speculation that PHL-TXL was on the chopping block I'm amazed that it's going daily.
https://www.phl.org/drupalbin/media/...e%208-8-19.pdf
Considering the rumors/speculation that PHL-TXL was on the chopping block I'm amazed that it's going daily.
Aug 13, 2019, 7:38 am
#78
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: AAdvantage Gold
Posts: 2
American has actually announced that they plan on putting lie-flat business, premium economy, MCE, and economy on their future A321XLRs. These planes are meant to replace the longer 757 routes such as PHL-EDI, PHL-SNN, and now PHL-CMN. So, your correct in the short term, but in the long term, AA is planning on fixing this problem.
Aug 13, 2019, 7:44 am
#79
Join Date: Aug 2019
Programs: AAdvantage Gold
Posts: 2
It's the same flight time as a flight from PHL to LHR. It happens to be a smaller market that AA is testing out with a smaller plane, which sadly has to be the 757. There are no other planes in the fleet, at the moment, that AA is able to send on long-distance, smaller market flights. My guess is that if it does well they may bump it up to a 788 next summer saying those are supposed to start PHL service early next year.
Aug 15, 2019, 4:21 am
#80
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: DL: Silver; AA: EX PLAT; UA: Silver; HY: DIA; HH: DIA; MR: TIT
Posts: 1,708
Put me in the category of people that don't want to go through PHL, even though I do sometimes because I have to. Are we certain those "hundreds of thousands of people" want to go through PHL, and would do so if given the choice of a different AA hub? Sure, maybe PHL is less prone to delays than JFK or ORD, but the lounge situation is pretty dire, the agents tend to be rude, and the domestic feeder flight will most likely be on an LUS plane with no power.
Aug 15, 2019, 8:27 pm
#81
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: PIT
Posts: 759
Aug 16, 2019, 8:23 pm
#82
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: CLT
Programs: AA Executive Platinum, Hilton Diamond, Lifetime Admirals Club member
Posts: 419
The anti-PHL hyperbole is awful. No one wants to connect anywhere, right up until they hit the ‘Buy’ button because they know PHL is more or less in a direct line between their airport & the place in Europe they’re trying to get to. For 80% of the crowd, no one cares. It’s an airport. It needs candy bars & bathrooms & we’ll be happy.
Aug 16, 2019, 9:20 pm
#83
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: PIT
Posts: 759
The anti-PHL hyperbole is awful. No one wants to connect anywhere, right up until they hit the ‘Buy’ button because they know PHL is more or less in a direct line between their airport & the place in Europe they’re trying to get to. For 80% of the crowd, no one cares. It’s an airport. It needs candy bars & bathrooms & we’ll be happy.
Aug 17, 2019, 6:06 pm
#84
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: LAX/ORD/HNL
Programs: AA EXP, 4.6 MM, LT Pt, HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 443
Some of you might know that I get a kick out of being on the inaugural flight of a significant new AA international route. So far I've done DFW/HKG, LAX/SYD, DFW/ICN (first 789 flight), and LAX/HKG. When last week's announcement of five new international routes came out, I decided to get on the inaugural flight from Philadelphia to Casablanca. As far as I can determine, AA has never flown to Africa in the past. Also, with Royal Air Maroc joining oneworld, this can only be a benefit to an AA flyer. AT's main hub is CMN so the connection possibilities throughout Africa are quite large. The only factor holding me back from booking the inaugural flight was the aircraft type. As mentioned upthread, the 757 is far from the favorite international aircraft of most FT types. However, the J seat is the same B/E Diamond seat used in the transcon A321T's. This will be my chance to give the seat a try as I've never been in J on transcons. I'll post a trip report!
Sep 5, 2019, 9:42 pm
#85
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: LAX/ORD/HNL
Programs: AA EXP, 4.6 MM, LT Pt, HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 443
“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-
Sep 29, 2019, 7:00 pm
#87
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: ORD
Programs: AA PLT
Posts: 2,781
With only 20 J seats per plane, I wouldn't hold your breath, except maybe a seat here or there midweek or in the shoulder season.
Dec 19, 2019, 2:31 am
#88
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Houston
Programs: AA EXP; Hyatt Globalist; Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond, UA 1.56MM (fmr UA1K)
Posts: 5,770
Second thoughts on frequency ORD-KRK? I was ticketed 6/4 for KRK-ORD and looked at my (reward) ticket and the Int segment was gone. I looked and my segment is gone because the flight is gone for that day. I’ve not called yet because I am not sure what I want... my guess is that they’ll want me to fly either a day earlier or a day later—neither of which I am inclined to do.
Dec 19, 2019, 8:21 am
#89
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 1,372
Second thoughts on frequency ORD-KRK? I was ticketed 6/4 for KRK-ORD and looked at my (reward) ticket and the Int segment was gone. I looked and my segment is gone because the flight is gone for that day. I’ve not called yet because I am not sure what I want... my guess is that they’ll want me to fly either a day earlier or a day later—neither of which I am inclined to do.
Apr 5, 2020, 4:25 pm
#90
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: LAX/ORD/HNL
Programs: AA EXP, 4.6 MM, LT Pt, HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 443
As expected, AA has canceled flight 82 from PHL to CMN on June 4th of this year. This was to have been the inaugural flight to Casablanca and I had a round trip ticket in business class. When I called the EXP line, there was no trouble whatsoever in getting a refund to my original form of payment.