Yesterday United Airlines revealed how they're more or less abandoning NYC for now (including LaGuardia and Newark), and now American Airlines has revealed how they're drastically reducing NYC flying. They'll be offering 13 daily flights to three NYC area airports combined, when last year they offered over 270 daily flights over the same period. American…
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LGA-ATL daily flights are still listed in flight searches for tomorrow and later on. Do you have a source for this that says LGA-ATL is not operating?
It should be telling which hubs AA selected. While these are their most profitable hubs, if you're living in PHX, ORD, or PHL, if times stay tough or get tough again and further de-hubbing happens, we know which hubs will be on the chopping block.
Finally mentioning this because I've seen it on multiple articles and something seems off - is "hugely reduced" a real phrase? Sure, it might check out in google translate but I've never seen this anywhere else, likely because there are multiple more accepted ways of writing the thought:
Drastically reduced - yes
Radically reduced - yes
Greatly reduced - yes, slightly different implication
Largely reduced - yes, even more different implication
Massively reduced - rarely seen this
Hugely reduced - never seen outside this blog, ever
The boredom of self quarantine has lowered me to grammar-picking, sorry...
It appears this schedule change lasts longer than May 6th. I'm booked (was booked) on a JFK-SFO flight on May 28th, in First. Just checked, and my flight has been changed to JFK-CLT-SFO.
Does this warrant a full cash refund, if I request it, as the original flight has been cancelled?
@KT You can request a refund to your original form of payment on their website ( https://prefunds.aa.com/refunds/). I would wait until the end of the day tomorrow to see if the flight is back on before requesting, since AA seems to be making tons of changes to their NYC schedules today. It is possible that you get a refund and then a few weeks later the flight appears back on the schedule, since they are making so many changes at once. If you need to speak with an agent, I would wait until much closer to the flight date, given the rapid schedule changes.
I still don't know of any source for these flight changes, but AA has removed the LGA-ATL nonstops for today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Thursday onward still has the flight. They must be working through the schedules day-by-day, perhaps in order to prevent overwhelming the reservations system.
@Sam thank you for the advice. AA refunded the ticket with no questions asked. And hold time
was less than 3 minutes.
There is only ever one DFW-JFK flight daily anyway...sometimes two. Most are to LGA.
@Sam - I was booked on a return ticket from ATL-LGA on AA with the outbound this past Friday and the Return on Monday (yesterday). AA canceled my ticket, so I'm sure the flights aren't operating 🙂
You know, I'm a New Yorker and I don't think it's such a bad thing not to have any NY crews. Just sayin'.