American Airlines

[Aviador]

American Airlines eyes Edinburgh-New York flights

SCOTS flying to the United States could see fare cuts after American Airlines announced it would compete with United Airlines between Edinburgh and New York next summer.

Read more: http://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/ ... -1-3611193

 

[ethanegcc]

Looks as if AA's EDI-JFK flights are being cut.

 

[Jerry]

American Airlines will add a daily seasonal Philadelphia to Edinburgh route. The service will be on a 757 and will be daily and will start April 2nd 2019 and run till 26th October 2019 but they are ending their JFK service.
http://news.aa.com/news/news-detail...European-Footprint-and-Modifies-Asia-Service/

 

[Brum X]

Philadelphia – Edinburgh Seasonal 1 daily 757 cancelled

News | Routes

Routes is the home of the world’s leading aviation network development conferences and events. Plus aviation news and features, and profiles of global airlines and airports.

www.routesonline.com

 

[Planemad134]

American to fly EDI-PHL route next summer on B787-8 6x weekly instead of B757-200 from the 29th of March 2021.

Link: https://www.americanairlines.co.uk/.../flight1?bookingPathStateId=1589112796158-569

 

[Jerry]

That's a bit of an upgrade!

 

[mullion]

B787 will be the only aircraft of reasonable size as B757/B767 will have been retired

 

[Jerry]

Don't they have A321neo?

 

[Coathanger16]

Don't they have A321neo?

They do, but they may not be ETOP's approved.

Don't think it was a NEO but illustrates the point:

Oops: American Accidentally Flies Wrong Plane To Hawaii

The story of how American flew a plane to Hawaii which wasn't actually certified for such a flight.

onemileatatime.com

 

[CM.]

Due to delays in B787 deliveries American Airlines have pulled a number of routes for 2022. Sadly Edinburgh is one of them with no flights available next year.

C-SeanM1997

 

[Jetsco]

Although not confirmed officially, a few sources is reporting that American have or about to drop DFW-DUB and PHL-LIS. Could this be bad news for EDI? Make it less likely that PHL-EDI will return in S23? AA like VS is very unpredictable and chop/change operations on a whim.

 

[Jetsco]

Interesting article with comments from Philadelphia CEO. Targeting the resumption of several routes, including EDI. Talks with AA already taken place.

https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2023/03/29/ceo-atif-saeed-phl-airport-preparation-for-2026.html

for those who can’t access, here’s a few lines from the article.

As for international service, Saeed wants to regain all of the 12 missing routes in 2024. Specific destinations he wants to see make their return are Reykjavik, Iceland; Edinburgh, Scotland; Manchester, England; Budapest, Hungary; Berlin, Germany; and Prague, Czech Republic.

PHL is currently working with American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) to see what can be done to put these flights back on the schedule.

 

[diamond geezer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1690046527773757441

 

[laviation]

It is known that AA wanted to do PHL-EDI this summer so potentially a return?

 

[mullion]

the problem is what they are going to fly the route with and as Manchester is in same position and we both have to wait for the A321 to arrive in 2025

 

[Jetsco]

PHL-EDI is very likely. The PHL airport has this on their top 5 list of service resumption’s. I’m hearing from several sources that DFW-EDI is very much under discussion. Lots of business and tourism networking been taking place in the DFW metroplex. AA have taken delivery of more 787s. This should allow them to grow again in the euro destinations.

 

[laviation]

What is this whole DFW-EDI rumour about? Surely they'd serve JFK and CLT and ORD before even considering it? It'd be a fantastic route (useful for myself!) but I just don't see why they would launch it?

 

[diamond geezer]

What is this whole DFW-EDI rumour about? Surely they'd serve JFK and CLT and ORD before even considering it? It'd be a fantastic route (useful for myself!) but I just don't see why they would launch it?

The rumour is about the possibility of AA opening a DFW-EDI route. They serve PHL, CLT, ORD and DFW from DUB (not JFK) so it's not unthinkable that they could serve DFW from EDI without serving JFK, CLT and ORD. I would have thought that any return to EDI by AA would be a PHL route first with an additional gateway (like CLT or DFW) following some years thereafter.

The various rumours I've seen are:

• PHL / DFW by AA as above. Note that DFW was on a list of aspirational routes that Visit Scotland were working on (source)
• MSP by DL
• Two existing US routes could be chopped.

On the MSP rumour, I note that GD was recently in DL's ATL HQ, ostensibly to show off the new DL tartan, but there's no way an airport's CEO turns up at an airline's HQ just for that. Potentially unrelated, but this article quotes GD as saying "Dewar said he was able, as Edinburgh Airport’s chief executive, to speak directly with airlines to offer the best deals on attracting new routes."

 

[gulftraveller]

The difference between DUB and EDI is that passengers from US can transfer onto EI which is part of the BA/AA jv. EDI is a point to point destination. There would be negigible business traffic between EDI and DFW and as for tourism it’s a long way, unlike routes from BOS or NYC. PHL/EDI must be a better bet. Even CLT would be more realistic than DFW.

As I have said elsewhere, airports can raise destinations with airlines and say they are in discussions when the airlines are not interested. All airports do it.

Mr. Dewar should, perhaps, be spending more time addressing the overcrowding problem and bad PR rather than looking at routes which may turn out to be unrealistic.

 

[Jetsco]

EDI appears to have missed out. AA have just confirmed new and returning route for S24

PHL

Copenhagen
Naples
Nice

ORD

Venice (resumption)

DFW

Barcelona

All due to operate daily on 788,789 and 772 aircraft.