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Those Boeing Delays Are Forcing Big Cuts To American Airlines Flying

by Gary Leff on April 26, 2024

Apr 26 2024

American Airlines is making changes to its international schedule, and they’re telling employees that it is because they’re having to plan for fewer widebody planes. Boeing delivery delays on the 787-9 aircraft that American has ordered mean they’re not going to be able to support the full schedule they’ve been selling.

As part of these changes, American is also making further adjustments to its network. This includes increasing service on some routes as well – so these changes aren’t entirely Boeing’s fault. Those service adjustments are being bundled in with bigger changes.

JetBlue: After Gutting Los Angeles, More Cuts Are Coming

by Gary Leff on March 20, 2024

Mar 20 2024

JetBlue is eliminating a third of its Los Angeles flying, dropping four cities completely from its route networks, and pulling down other flights including several out of Fort Lauderdale. But it turns out they aren’t done cutting – and more route cuts will come next month.

American Airlines Launching New Service To New Zealand, Dropping Israel And India Routes

by Gary Leff on May 27, 2022

May 27 2022

American Airlines is launching a new long haul Pacific route, Dallas to Auckland, complementing Qantas Dallas – Sydney service. They won’t restart Los Angeles – Auckland, though, and they’re dropping the idea of Dallas – Tel Aviv. The long-expect Seattle – Bangalore flight, which was supposed to be American’s first return to India, won’t happen until (at least) summer 2023 if it comes to fruition.

There are several more route changes as American adjusts its international strategy as well.

United Wants To Fly Washington Dulles – Cape Town. They Also Want To Block Delta.

by Gary Leff on March 4, 2022

Mar 04 2022

United Airlines has asked the government for authority to fly Washington Dulles – Cape Town, South Africa three times a week using a Boeing 787-9, effective November 17, 2022. They already offer scheduled service from Newark to both Cape Town and Johannesburg. But they may not be allowed to do this.

American Airlines Explains The Future Of LAX And Their New Asia Gateway Airport

by Gary Leff on September 21, 2021

Sep 21 2021

Seattle will become the primary American Airlines Asian gateway. American explains that they make money when there’s little competition in the schedule. And they perform poorly when they have to compete against Asian carriers. Here’s the future of the LAX hub, and the airline’s Asia flying.

The Strange Way Some Airlines Decide To Add New Routes.. Telephone Records

by Gary Leff on September 17, 2021

Sep 17 2021

Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza told an interesting story about trying to figure out whether a new route would be profitable.

In normal times airlines have great data – required and reported by the federal government – on a sample of US ticket purchases that show the number of people flying a given route and what price. But there are cases where this data isn’t available, and they had to look at… alternative sources of data to decide whether or not a route made sense.

Which International Flights Won’t Return After Covid?

by Gary Leff on December 18, 2020

Dec 18 2020

International route networks are currently very limited, often only flights that can be supported by cargo with passengers a plus are operating. That’s both because of limited travel demand, with business travel non-existent and a raging virus keeping people at home, and because of travel restrictions and local restrictions too (there have to be activities at a destination happening to make the travel worthwhile).

But which routes are going to come back, and which ones are gone for good?

The Busiest Airline Routes In The U.S. And The World Right Now

by Gary Leff on November 17, 2020

Nov 17 2020

Domestic travel is obviously coming back faster than international. Domestic flights in Asian counties is coming back the fastest. In the U.S. people are heading to Florida and other leisure destinations, so that’s where airlines are sending their planes. The cities that make the list though are in many ways surprising.

American Airlines Lays Out Brand New International Flight Strategy

by Gary Leff on July 1, 2020

Jul 01 2020

On Saturday I told you that a big international route announcement was coming from Americanincluding, quoting internal comments by CEO Doug Parker, “what we plan to fly next summer and what we don’t plan to fly.” That announcement is now out.

They’re revamping their international strategic focus, and bringing back many routes for summer while break-even load factors are so low thanks to the CARES Act. LAX is no longer their Pacific hub. They’re doubling down on close partnerships. And that means a lot of flight changes.

American Airlines Planning International Route Announcement

by Gary Leff on June 28, 2020

Jun 28 2020

American Airlines CEO Doug Parker shared with pilots last week that they’re planning an international route announcement in a couple of weeks. The flights they’ll be adding soon have already been shown to pilots, who had to bid on which trips to take. They’re also going to share plans for which flights they’ll run next summer – and which they won’t.

Senior Vice President Vasu Raja then went on to explain how they’re deciding which flights to add, and dropped two that look likely to start back up in August.