AA Back to Tel Aviv?
 

To be clear, AA has not formally announced a return to TLV. However, it looks like they are hiring Hebrew-speaking FAs and the airline blogs such as OMAAT are as a result speculating that AA is preparing to serve TLV again. Thoughts?

https://onemileatatime.com/news/american-airlines-israel-flights/

There's not much question that AA wants and/or needs to be in TLV. The issue -as should surprise no one- is aircraft availability. Is AA willing to dedicate the necessary frames for a TLV service, and also have some certainty that it will run regularly. There's not much point in resuming TLV at the expense of another route if the aircraft is not going to be properly utilized. If the above reports do indeed portend a return to TLV service, then we have the answer.

The flight attendant job posting lists the potential base locations as Dallas - TX, Boston - MA, Charlotte - NC, Chicago - IL, Los Angeles - CA, Miami - FL, New York City LGA - NY, Philadelphia - PA, Phoenix - AZ, Washington Reagan - DC.

I seriously doubt that any flights to Israel are imminent, as only the NY is likely to be the base for the TLV flights.

I suspect this is boilerplate language as it's basically every AA FA base.

I guess it's official now https://www.jpost.com/international/article-871532

"I guess it's official now https://www.jpost.com/international/article-871532"
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An LA route? :eek:

According to the linked Jerusalem Post article AA may add LAX-TLV flights:

I would be highly skeptical of the claim from the article that they are considering LAX-TLV

I bet they would add DFW, PHL, or ORD well before LAX.

Yes, if they couldn't make DFW or MIA work, LAX is a fantasy. It's an even bigger challenge operationally and there is very little feed that wouldn't require pax to backtrack. There is also direct LY competition on the route. UA doesn't even fly SFO-TLV anymore and they are the dominant US carrier to Israel. It just sounds like something a transportation minister asked them to consider without thinking it through. This would require a government subsidy and AA wouldn't be the best carrier for it.

PHL-TLV was quoted by the former CEO that it never made money in the years it ran.

The LAX metro area has a large jewish population and there's only ElAl and DL that fly it nonstop now where the NY Metro has 5 airlines to compete with. As LAX isn't a 787 base, that means it would go to the 777-300 which could be a nice premium product once project Olympus is done. It's nice to see they are thinking about good opportunities as the 789P deliveries continue to trickle in.

Could the 787 make PHL-TLV work? I don't think AA was flying 787s out of PHL when Tel Aviv was dropped. The 788/789 is more fuel-efficient than the 777s or 330s they were probably using on PHL-TLV.

Delta does not fly LAX-TLV.

The 787 can handle that with ease.

PHL-TLV was operated by an a332 back in the LUS days.

I don't believe that they ever have either. They codeshare with LY.