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[700UW]

AA used too?
 
Do you know what type of plane the new AA uses for flight 789 PHL-LHR?

That would be a B757.

 

[WorldTraveler]

ok.... so they still do. thanks for the update. I would guess FWAAA didn't realize that or else AA is intentionally being inefficient. or that is the right size aircraft to maintain a flight without putting too many seats in the market.

BOS-LHR had multiple daily 757s before AA dropped it in favor of all BA service.

thus, all 3 US carriers have 757s to LHR.

 

[USFlyer]

US789 is the day flight PHL to LHR.  I'm guessing that attracts fewer customers than the traditional red eye.

 

[FWAAA]

AA HAS used 757s to LHR; they were discontinued but it has been done. UA has 757s to LHR and DL has just added PHL-LHR 757 using the AA/US merger divestiture slot.

Sure, AA has flown (and still flies PHL-LHR) to LHR with 757s but that doesn't contravene my point, and that is that 757s are not an efficient use of scarce slots. I didn't say that 757s don't (or won't) fly to LHR, only that it's inefficient.

The chances that AA would start a point to point route (not from an AA hub in the US) to CDG is somewhere between zero and zilch. PIT-CDG works for DL because of the AF hub. AA would not try or succeed at trying to go up against DL/AF on a non-US hub route for AA or DL but with a JV partner for one on the other end.

And yet, every summer, AA resumes flying to Paris from Boston. And BOS hasn't been an AA hub in like, forever. PIT is a former US hub and still has a fair amount of loyal customers. I doubt AA will fly to CDG from PIT, but I believe you may have over-stated the chances against such a flight. Paris has incredible appeal from Americans in the summer.
 

ok.... so they still do. thanks for the update. I would guess FWAAA didn't realize that or else AA is intentionally being inefficient. or that is the right size aircraft to maintain a flight without putting too many seats in the market.

If that's your guess, then you'd be incorrect, which isn't too rare. I did not post (nor did I imply) that AA does not fly to LHR with 757s. Thanks for playing.

 

[WorldTraveler]

BOS is a far larger market than PIT.

tell me how many flights there are from PIT to LHR compared to BOS.


and your theory about inefficiency only works if you believe that not just AA but all 3 US carriers operate at least some of their TATL flights on 757s.

clearly use of the 757 is a solution which they accept.