Which of American’s Nine Hubs Are on the Chopping Block?
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so how many AIRPLANE seats does AA have from the Texas Panhandle to its 9 hubs?
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actually the question and the relevant responses should be somewhat about
Which of American’s Nine Hubs Are on the Chopping Block?
Which of American’s Nine Hubs Are on the Chopping Block?
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Buck said:
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guess you gave up on pushing your HND theory so are returning to other conversations.
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dupe
The Answer is none are on the chopping block and all will be growing! Scott Kirby goes over all of them in the latest Crew News.
The highlights as best I recall.
JKF most improved financial performance, slot constrained.
DCA very important but also slot constraines.
Both of which lead to why PHL will not be seeing reductions of any scale.
CLT most profitable hub.
DFW will see the most growth but mostly regional flying.
MIA great gateway, not much growth until S.A. economy recovers.
ORD- forgot what he said about ORD.
PHX - balance with SWA is very stable, sees no big changes. There are plans to add international (Atlantic) flying bit are on hold pending the International revenue environment.
LAX the most opportunity and were most of the growth will be over the next two years.
The highlights as best I recall.
JKF most improved financial performance, slot constrained.
DCA very important but also slot constraines.
Both of which lead to why PHL will not be seeing reductions of any scale.
CLT most profitable hub.
DFW will see the most growth but mostly regional flying.
MIA great gateway, not much growth until S.A. economy recovers.
ORD- forgot what he said about ORD.
PHX - balance with SWA is very stable, sees no big changes. There are plans to add international (Atlantic) flying bit are on hold pending the International revenue environment.
LAX the most opportunity and were most of the growth will be over the next two years.
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upnaway.
" LAX the most opportunity and where most of the GROWTH will be over the next two years ".
BUT - BUT - BUT, this Can't Be. World Traveler said Del - DUH Was the BIG DOG in Lax ???
" LAX the most opportunity and where most of the GROWTH will be over the next two years ".
BUT - BUT - BUT, this Can't Be. World Traveler said Del - DUH Was the BIG DOG in Lax ???
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DL is the #2 airline at LAX and the fastest growing.
What AA does with its hubs remains to be seen but they will rationalize their network. It has already happened with some of their international flights but it will work its way down to the domestic market. Domestic right now just happened to be doing better than int'l overall but the benefits of the merger were predicated on revenue improvement and network efficiencies; AA hasn't done that and is trailing the industry in revenue production.
Changes will come to AA's network structure.
What AA does with its hubs remains to be seen but they will rationalize their network. It has already happened with some of their international flights but it will work its way down to the domestic market. Domestic right now just happened to be doing better than int'l overall but the benefits of the merger were predicated on revenue improvement and network efficiencies; AA hasn't done that and is trailing the industry in revenue production.
Changes will come to AA's network structure.
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Reality is that DL had no choice to grow since it was the #4 airline at LAX not too long ago (behind UA, AA, WN).
So, if you 're starting so far back and have so much to catch up, you better be the fastest growing. After all, if DL remained at its previous position, it certainly would have gone tango uniform (since we all know that even a #3 carrier in any market is doomed / destined for failure).
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UPNAWAY said:
The answer is DFW.
All ya'all have no idea of how much hurt DL is placing on AA's DFW hub with its 5x daily DAL-ATL flights. Heck, they may even take down WN at the same time ..................
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The N. Texas market is like the wild west of aviation...
FrugalFlyerv2.0 said:
Indeed. It's hardly surprising that Delta is growing faster at LAX than AA - Delta has had no choice but to grow faster since it was, and remains, meaningfully behind AA (and in some cases United) in multiple key ways.
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And we all know which airline is going to "win in N. Texas" ...
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the justification for all of the mergers was to gain size. AA said it needed to grow to catch up with DL and UA.
the fact that AA had a size advantage at LAX doesn't mean that AA didn't need to do the same thing for the same reasons elsewhere - or change CURRENT evidence that DL has moved from the #3 to #2 position at LAX and did it since the merger.
but none of that changes that AA justified the merger based on network synergies that have not been reached.
The first step is the single res system which happens this weekend. Chances are that by this time next year, there will be plans well underway to start consolidating AA's network around fewer hubs.
It will happen.
the fact that AA had a size advantage at LAX doesn't mean that AA didn't need to do the same thing for the same reasons elsewhere - or change CURRENT evidence that DL has moved from the #3 to #2 position at LAX and did it since the merger.
but none of that changes that AA justified the merger based on network synergies that have not been reached.
The first step is the single res system which happens this weekend. Chances are that by this time next year, there will be plans well underway to start consolidating AA's network around fewer hubs.
It will happen.
