AA announces new "nerd bird" routes: AUS-BOS, AUS-SJC and "special event" city pairs
 

Double daily routes. Some of the first non-hub city pairs in a long, long time.

Newsroom - New Flights from Austin to Boston and San Jose Start this Spring - American Airlines Group, Inc.

RDU-PIT?

Will 5G wifi be available on board the nerd birds?

AA getting in the tech bird action with AUS-SJC and AUS-BOS. AA flew AUS-SJC until 2009, not sure if they ever flew AUS-BOS.

1996 called. It wants its press release back.

I guess this is what passes for innovation at AA these days: reinstating SJC routes with a long AA history and adding a few oddball flights here and there for special events (something UA has been doing for a while).

If AA brought back comfortable MD-80s to fly AUS-SJC that might be cool (though at its high water mark I believe AUS-SJC was up to 4x daily with 3 of those flights being operated by 757s).

I believe that other than RDU/LHR these might be the only Mainline non hub routes that operate on a regular basis (no seasonal or Saturdays).

This a fantastic news for us here in the Silicon Valley. Thanks AA for restoring this service.

Always wondered why this flight existed, but it's come in handy for me a few times

Did anyone else giggle and think this flight could have avoided so many issues in the 2000 movie Road Trip?

Sure which they would reinstate LAX-PSP permanently. Used to have multiply daily N/S's. Miss that.

Agreed! Does anyone fly this route anymore?

Not mainline but MDT-BOS has existed as long as I can remember.

Competition on AUS-BOS is steadily increasing - with the AA flights, there will now be 2x AA, 2x B6, 1x WN, 1x DL each way on the weekdays.

The press release also contained this interesting little tidbit:

BOS is truly a bloodbath in terms of airlines battling it out. Great for BOS flyers. Funny, I remember when folks decried BOS fares and would go to MHT, PVD, and even BDL to avoid it. Now it seems BOS is drawing a lot of that traffic back.