American and BA continue to see strong transatlantic demand

[700UW]

The heads of joint business partners American Airlines and British Airways continue to see strong and growing demand for transatlantic service, allowing them to continue considering expansion in the market.
“Our assessment of the capacity in the transatlantic is that it is well matched to the demand but there has been some minor overcapacity that’s been trimmed,” says Willie Walsh, chief executive of BA parent International Airlines Group (IAG), at a media event in Washington DC today. “We have no concerns with the situation we are operating in today.”
 

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/american-and-ba-continue-to-see-strong-transatlantic-demand-404459/

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

DL/VS will crush them regardless.

 

[robbedagain]

700 great article but we all know its just not good enough bec its just not DL nor AF nor KL

 

[WorldTraveler]

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/american-and-ba-continue-to-see-strong-transatlantic-demand-404459/

the fact that AF was on strike for 2 weeks in Sept certainly didn't hurt anyone else.

Of course it is precisely the excess capacity in the market that will push yields down for everyone.

AA is simply signaling that it wants other carriers to pull capacity out of the market.

It's up to them to decide what they want to do.