New AA flights from Miami

[FA Mikey]

Some new AA flights coming soon.

Greensboro, Louisville daily.

Phoenix get second daily.

Indianapolis gets third daily.

Las Vegas gets fourth daily.

Houston gets fifth daily.

Atlanta gets eighth daily.

Tallahassee gets 4th daily.

Jacksonville 5th daily.

Key West 6th daily.

Washington-Reagan 10th daily.

Roatan Honduras Satuday only.

 

[wings396]

Look for more PHX along with some PHL & CLT as well in the near future.....

 

[eolesen]

Amazing what happens when the construction ends.

 

[FA Mikey]

It will be interesting to see what there 20% increase will bring in Miami, as well as all the other four big bases.

 

[johnny kat]

So, if I want to travel from GSO to Louisville or ATL amd I going to have to go all the way down to MIA to change planes? Or if my travel plans call for ATL to Tallahassee or JAX am I going to have to travel all the way down to MIA to make that connection? Doesn't sound very business friendly or convenient.

 

[FA Mikey]

Well if you are connecting to the Caribbean, Central America or South America, yea we are making money. If you are connecting on AA to the West coast, or cities like Houston, we are doing just fine. AA's goal is not necessarily trying to be everything to everyone. Its a short course to failure

 

[FWAAA]

So, if I want to travel from GSO to Louisville or ATL amd I going to have to go all the way down to MIA to change planes? Or if my travel plans call for ATL to Tallahassee or JAX am I going to have to travel all the way down to MIA to make that connection? Doesn't sound very business friendly or convenient.

I realize that there are examples of southeast domestic itineraries where the CLT hub makes sense, but seriously now, if you're flying in or out of ATL to a non-hub, then a nonstop on DL is the way to go. As FA Mikey said, you can't be everything to everyone. No business person in their right mind would connect at CLT to get from ATL to TLH or ATL to JAX when DL can take you nonstop. Connecting traffic almost always pays lower fares than nonstop traffic, so right off the bat you're settling for less revenue.

AA isn't expecting people to fly all the way down to MIA so they can connect there on purely domestic itineraries. MIA is a Latin American gateway/hub where AA's extensive schedule exists primarily to feed the numerous international flights, as well as satisfy the fairly high O&D to/from MIA.

 

[jimntx]

We can all find examples with every airline where a minor market seems to be underserved. There's a reason why JAX does not have service from non-hub to non-hub. Aside from the fact that the company has received no indication of demand for an Atlanta to Tallahassee non-stop, that is not the way a hub and spoke carrier works.

I guess you'll just have to go on LCC. Note that ATL-TLH on LCC requires that first you go north to CLT, change planes, then south to TLH. Doesn't sound very business friendly to me. Even DL has limited non-stop service. Found something interesting, though, on Expedia. DL (Connection) nonstop is over $500 round-trip. You can get fares down in the low $400s by going ATL-FLL-TLH (FLL-TLH also being DL Connection).

I guess we'll just have to resign ourselves to the fact that TLH is not being treated fairly by the big ole airlines. TLH should have non-stop service from LHR, not to mention ORD, LAX, and LGA.

Now, maybe I'll start on the poor service to BHM.

 

[WorldTraveler]

AA is doing at MIA exactly what they should do after spending billions of dollars on a new terminal. They would have done the same thing at JFK if this little thing called 9/11 hadn't happened resulting in a significant rearrangement of the US airline industry.

Since there are no major network hubs between ATL and MIA, AA does carry a certain amount of domestic connecting traffic through MIA, esp. to the rest of Florida which is a huge market - and it is not just leisure.
But those domestic connections are byproducts of the local domestic traffic which AA controls at MIA as well as the int'l traffic.

It should also be remembered that many of the largest destinations in Latin America are not part of Open Skies - but Open Skies is coming to most markets within the next couple years.
The best way to ensure that AA has a viable future in the much more competitive environment that is coming is to make the MIA hub as large as it can be... and that is exactly what the new terminal allows them to do.

Plus, it helps them pay the bills for it. 🙂

 

[BoeingBoy]

AA is doing at MIA exactly what they should do after spending billions of dollars on a new terminal.

Every airport that I can think of outside smaller markets pays for building terminals then pays the bonds back with user fees/PFC's/etc. So AA hasn't spent "billions of dollars on a new terminal." Over time, they'll pay their share of total airport costs, but not up front except for whatever they are responsible for, i.e. office/crew room furnishings, etc).

It's like airplanes. After all the paperwork is done and money finishes changing hands, the airline hasn't spent the cost of an airplane immediately. They either do a sale/leaseback or EETC to get most/all of their money back then make lease/EETC payments for X years.

Jim

 

[wings396]

All of this talk about CLT & MIA baffles me a bit. If they can't coexist with US, why would Delta be interested in MIA & DFW when they have ATL? I would think that having MIA & ATL would be more of an issue than CLT given that ATL most likely serves some duplicate flying with MIA that CLT doesn't.

 

[700UW]

And people forgot DL had a hub at DFW and closed it down, had a hub in MCO and closed it down.

If they wanted to go back into DFW they dont need to buy assets from AA.

 

[wings396]

Back in the day AA ran Delta out of town, and they gave BN a shove off the cliff when they were hurting as well. I recall Crandall being quoted as saying
"Delta won't be making another ATL in our backyard".

 

[firedougparker]

No overlap with CLT here at all... Complementary networks indeed, Mr. Parker!

/sarcasm

 

[wings396]

I see that you have found your way over here with your idiotic posts, welcome. I hope Doug fires you soon, unless he already has.