AAL moves to shrink Envoy nearly by half

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Some are extraneous when you have more than 2 hubs served:

CAE-DFW 1x makes no sense with CAE-CLT and CAE-DCA service
CMI-DFW 1X is a hard sell with 6 trips CMI-ORD
PHX-TUS 10x seems to be overkill with flights to LAX and DFW. It's almost faster to drive (those in the northwest part of Pima County are only ~90 minutes away from PHX and 30 minutes from TUS)

The situation gets exacerbated when serving both JFK & LGA, sometimes as wingtip departures...

BNA-JFK & BNA-LGA
CMH-JFK & CMH-LGA
DCA-JFK 6x when you have the Shuttle?...
PIT-LGA & PIT-JFK
RDU-LGA & RDU-JFK
YUL-LGA & YUL-JFK (wingtips)
YYZ-LGA & YYZ-JFK

Some cities are small enough that service to just one hub isn't out of the question...

GJT-DFW & GJT-PHX seems dumb...

0ver 40 flights @ CMH plus 22 flights at DAY seems a bit much...

So does the ex-CommutAir network still flying BUF/SYR-BOS (ALB-BOS seems to have finally gone away)

Having 4x ITH-PHL and 3x ELM-PHL while there are 6x SYR-PHL and 4x BGM-PHL seems just a bit excessive. ITH is 31 miles from BGM and 45 miles from SYR... ELM is 45 miles from BGM.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=PHL-SYR,ITH-BGM,ELM-BGM-PHL

Serving both PHF & ORF seems dumb as well. 23 miles between the two airports... leave PHF for the LCC's and serve ORF where the DOD business is...

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=PHF-ORF

Likewise, 5x at LGB-PHX when SNA and LAX are less than 20 miles in either direction?... Same thing with BUR-PHX when LAX is just 18 miles south.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=SNA-LGB-LAX-BUR

There are a few markets which might be able to bump up to a 319 from a CR9...

ABQ-PHX (4x)
BNA-CLT (3x, still lots of AA elites)
BUR-PHX (4x, assuming it stays given proximity to LAX)
CLE-CLT (4x, with UA's drawdown?...)
ORF-CLT (3x, especially if PHF gets closed)



Those are just a few that I picked up off the schedule. I'm sure there are others which could be trimmed from the network.

 

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http://blogs.star-telegram.com/sky_talk/2014/05/with-american-parking-regional-aircraft-envoy-will-need-47-percent-fewer-pilots.htmlLooks like 59 of the E140s which made no economic sense anyway will be parked while 47 CR7s will be transferred to other regional carriers.sorry for the Envoy pilots to see this becoming reality.On a unit per unit basis, even the new E175s that AAL will acquire will have to be used to offset E140 flying.

Don't you guys see what was going on there?