Focus Cities

[Gooney Bird]

NW just announced a third focus city in IND after MKE and GRR.

AA has a large presence in ORF, RDU, CMH, BNA, TUL, MCI, AUS and TUS.

It also happens to be true that these eight cities are all in the top ten best places to live/ for business lists.

Hopefully this spring AA will realize it has regrouped enough and go on the offensive. Maintaining the three large hubs in DFW MIA and ORD and using RJs, 80s out of storage and new 737s to do more point to point out of these popular cities that they have a slight advantage in now.

Adding to this



at JFK where AA will push out DAL and show JB what a Legacy can really do.

We can talk about the west coast on another thread.

 

[WorldTraveler]

Although you might like the idea of AA ruling the skies, the reality is that the world and the US and most cities are too big for one airline to handle all of the business. That is why the legacy airlines have existed fairly comfortably with each other. For now, it is probably in AA's best interest to co-exist with other legacy airlines. If they push the legacy airlines out of the way, LCCs will quickly move in. AA's cost structure is better suited to competing w/ other legacies than LCCs. In time that might change but by that time there probably won't be near as many legacies as there are today; the ones that do remain will be able to compete very effectively with any carrier flying.

 

[MAH4546]

American Airlines point to point network is very strong already. They hav eight focus cities - Austin, San Jose, LaGuardia, Raleigh, JFK, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale, and Boston - not to mention a decent presence in many other markets, like Nashville and Columbus. They have always been ahead of the game in their point-to-point route structure. No other legacy carrier has as many focus cities or PTP routes as AA does.

 

[desertfox]

American Airlines point to point network is very strong already. They hav eight focus cities - Austin, San Jose, LaGuardia, Raleigh, JFK, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale, and Boston - not to mention a decent presence in many other markets, like Nashville and Columbus. They have always been ahead of the game in their point-to-point route structure. No other legacy carrier has as many focus cities or PTP routes as AA does.

You left out St. Louis, the best performing focus city on the system, and one of the most profitable now that it is out from under alot of problems TWA had to deal with.

 

[MiAAmi]

American Airlines point to point network is very strong already. They hav eight focus cities - Austin, San Jose, LaGuardia, Raleigh, JFK, Los Angeles, Ft. Lauderdale, and Boston - not to mention a decent presence in many other markets, like Nashville and Columbus. They have always been ahead of the game in their point-to-point route structure. No other legacy carrier has as many focus cities or PTP routes as AA does.

CMH is the big surprise. I think by Jan 2005 CMH will have close to 35 flights per day. I guess with HP pulling all but 3 flights from CMH, AA must have seen some opportunity in buiding up some point to point here. Maybe some west coast flights are on the horizon.

 

[MAH4546]

You left out St. Louis, the best performing focus city on the system, and one of the most profitable now that it is out from under alot of problems TWA had to deal with.

I didn't leave out St. Louis. St. Louis is a hub, not a focus city, despite the cutbacks.

 

[coolflyingfool]

YEAH, STL is one of the big boys on the block!! Go Rams!!

 

[gso2pit]

Don't forget DCA...don't they have:
MIA/STL/ORD/LGA/JFK/RDU/BOS and maybe a few others...