Now that American Airlines and JetBlue Airways have terminated their Northeast Alliance, American is bringing back a pretty crucial business route.
Continue reading: American’s Boston To New York LaGuardia Route Returns
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
It will absolutely go back to hourly. They need to get slots back from JetBlue which will be a phased-in process between October and spring 2024. This article should add that important context.
The original idea of the Shuttle service was to provide very regular service for business travelers going between two high business destination cities. Ditto for LGA/DCA. But since then the Acela came along (far easier for inner city) and airlines have decided flights must be packed to the gills. Hence no longer the frequency. I think DCA/LGA is every two hours, or there abouts. That DCA route for me tends to be either easy to upgrade or F sells really cheap. Sometimes on the weekend when I have time I'll fly DCA/LGA/MIA back to Miami because the F fare is really good and I get a nice side trip to see the Manhattan skyline.
American should bring back New York LaGuardia - Atlanta flights. They should also add Boston - Atlanta , and JFK - Atlanta flights.
With reduced demand for business travel, if American is smart they should offer two morning and evening departures each and they may do fine. Unless they are looking to slot squat, I think 4 flights between the market is enough to “text the waters”.
American continues to fly jfk - Boston, although more accessible to international connections, American probably understands that the business market has evolved since Covid.
Whats the purpose of this route? Is there a reason why someone do not build a maglev and go between the cities within 45 minutes.
I would imagine the average person does not have the building materials for a maglev train.
Jokes aside, it's an incredibly complex issue that cannot be summarized in one comment. You'll have to search online for the answer.
It's criminal that the "wealthiest country on Earth" can't afford to build a super high speed rail in this corridor. Instead, we will spew tons of carbon into the air for a flight that doesn't even have time to get up in the air before it needs to land again.
You don't need a maglev, you just need faster HSR. The DC-PHI-NYC route is already dominated by the Acela and it funnels way more traffic through various bottlenecks like the hudson tunnels. You don't need to shave off much more time from the existing route to essentially make the LGA-BOS route uncompetitive (LGA has a particularly horrible location with no transit connectivity).
Just shows the Justice department was right in ruling against the alliance between JetBlue and American. More competition. Hopefully JetBlue increases service to ORD as well
A319 is an interesting choice for aircraft. That's got to have the lowest premium seat ratio in their entire fleet right?
You've heard of Acela. No one is going to be able to plow a corridor through Providence, New Haven, Brigidgeport. Stamford, and Westchester.
"Is there a reason why someone do not build a maglev and go between the cities within 45 minutes"[?]
It's because the same people who thoughtlessly say things like this are also the first to scream "not in my back yard!" when someone tries to build anything.
And in this case there are literally millions of residents who would be impacted. It is completely urbanized between the two.
AA only flew to PHL and canceled often. Not many people flew them from ISP. Made sense to shift flight 50 miles away to LGA/JFK.
I had a $400 RT non stop from JFK-SLC booked on AA flown by B6 in July. Do you seriously think that next year, I will get that flight cheaper now that the NEA is dead? DL was significantly more expensive too.
For a 185 mile flight, why isnt AA using AA Eagle regional to lower the cost of operation? This route would benefit from less capacity/higer frequency. It also would be any easy way to slot squat.
Is there enough demand for all three airlines to have hourly service? I guess this is a very price sensitive route. Problem with Acela is that it is not very fast. Four to six hours or so to Boston? In fact compared to high speed rail elsewhere in the world it is very slow...
My Name is Junayed Khan I am from Bangladesh , I want to come in USA New York City ,
Blows my mind how much pearl clutching goes on over the poor homeowners impacted (and not always even forced to move) when rail projects that would objectively improve the travel situation in every way are proposed, but any time a highway needs another half-dozen lanes it's full speed ahead, get that crap built. There's 0 reason the existing alignments between Boston and NYC can't be improved to allow for higher speed train sets and lower travel times.
“There's 0 reason the existing alignments between Boston and NYC can't be improved to allow for higher speed train sets and lower travel times.”
Completely wrong. The NE Corridor is already basically maxed out at 150 mph, and that is only in a few sections. Curves and a lack of distance between the tracks significantly limits any future speed increase. The NYC - Boston corridor is even worse (in terms of curves, space limitations, and bridges). It needs hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades, and that still won’t increase speeds significantly.
That’s not to say that HSR shouldn’t be built between DC and Boston, but it is impractical to do it on the current alignment,
MCO is workable but LAS is outside the flight radius and unlike DEN isn't specifically excluded.
Not wrong. There is enough room in the existing RoW to space out the tracks and allow more superelevation on the curves. That coupled with better tilting trainsets would allow for higher speeds on the existing bottlenecks in the system. This is a solved problem, it seems, everywhere but in the US. And I do agree that a completely separate system should be built, but that's letting perfect later being the enemy of good now. Adjusting the tracks a few feet and adding a few additional inches of superelevation would go a long way.
I am thrilled as I am a flight attendant for AA and grew up in NY. Although JetBlue has been wonderful to us, I love the fact that I can ride the jump seat to get home! I also love the passengers that fly us between Bos and Lga…. Hooray, finally some great news for us employees….