American Airlines is adding a seasonal route network from the Northeast to summer seaside destinations in and around Cape Cod as well as Maine and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Previously most of these destinations would have been served to American’s customers by JetBlue, but that partnership is mostly through winding down after a district court judge ruled against it in an anti-trust case.
These are new American Eagle routes operated by Embraer E175 regional jets.
| From | To | Service begins | Service notes | |||
| DCA | Hyannis, Massachusetts (HYA) | 22-Jun-24 | Daily summer service | |||
| LGA | Bangor, Maine (BGR) | 5-Jun-24 | Daily summer service | |||
| LGA | Halifax, Canada (YHZ) | 5-Jun-24 | Daily summer service | |||
| LGA | Hyannis, Massachusetts (HYA) | 5-Jun-24 | Daily summer service | |||
| LGA | Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts (MVY) | 22-Jun-24 | Daily summer service | |||
| LGA | Nantucket, Massachusetts (ACK) | 22-Jun-24 | Daily summer service | |||
| LGA | Portland, Maine (PWM) | 5-Jun-24 | Twice daily year-round service |
American Airlines Embraer E-175
In addition American will return to serving Washington National – Bermuda on April 4. While National airport lacks a customs facility, it serves international destinations (such as parts of the Caribbean as well as Canada) which have U.S. immigration preclearance.
I’m especially pleased to see Martha’s Vineyard service. The past two summers I’ve visited, flown into Boston, and driven a rental car on board the Steamship Company ferry there and back.
Nantucket of course amuses me for other reasons. Here’s how JetBlue had promoted its own Nantucket route addition some time back:
American has been drawing down its New York service in the absence of a partner, as it reverts to its former position that Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja describes as ‘too small to win, too big to quit’ in the market.
However these tactical additions should be revenue accretive and attractive to the New York market as well potentially for connections within the LaGuardia perimeter, and outsourced to regional carriers they’ll be less expensive to operate – in other words they’re reasonably good even as far as slot squatting goes.
American Airlines Delivering People To Lobster Rolls
American has also filed with the Department of Transportation seeking to fly from New York JFK to Tokyo Haneda, but there’s only one Haneda slot to assign and both United and Delta will compete for it. American’s chances seem low since the carrier’s joint venture partner Japan Airlines already serves the route so this would add neither new service nor competition (United is making a similarly-challenged ask to serve Haneda from Houston).
One main issue is LAX-BOS. AA has only one and occasionally two flights a day on that route, whereas JetBlue has five!
AA is going to make a few additions here and there to make up for what it is losing through the NEA but the fairly minor additions here aren’t going to move the neede.
AA is underperforming DL and UA in the NE because of major business routes, not because of leisure markets in the summer.
Glad you touched on the Japanese route. The DOT has announced no route case. AA and UA have both told the DOT what it wants to add while DL has not and does not need to until a route case begins.
I believe DL will re-win the PDX-HND frequency for use in JFK-HND because no other route is a new route for AA or UA because of their joint venture partner operations in the same city AA and UA propose.
If DL succeeds at adding JFK-HND, the significance will be that DL will be re-entering the NYC to E Asia market which will have a large competitive impact on United which has the only US carrier service in that market now.
DL execs just said that they will announce additional service to ICN based on the very strong performance they are seeing at that JV hub. LAX and JFK have both got to be very high on DL’s ICN lists. Adding JFK-HND and JFK-ICN will dramatically change the NYC to Asia market between US carriers.
@ Tim Dunn — Please go back to wherever you’ve been lately.
Where’s Cape Code?
Gene,
clearly you don’t want to hear the truth and I bring it in spades.
Gary – how about AA service from JFK / LGA to the state of FL ( other than MIA )? Like MCO, TPA, FLL, JAX. They can skip those small summer routes and pay attention to the 3 most populous state in the US
@ Tim Dunn — I thought your brought yours using wheelbarrows and manure pitchforks.