WOW Air keeps growing their US route network at an incredible pace. Their first US destination was Boston in March 2015, and since then they’ve added flights to Baltimore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Newark, Miami, Pittsburgh, and Chicago. A couple of weeks ago we learned that they'll add flights to Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, and St.…
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"keep in mind that WOW Air is as “no frills” as they get, as they charge for everything, including bags, seat assignments, food, etc"
And how is this going to be different from AA's Basic Economy fares? WOW's big seat fares with everything included look like a good deal compared to AA's crAAp Basic Economy. Having this LCC is good for us living in the DFW area.
While all of these low cost fares are great for coach flyers (and occasional bargains on premium fares), whenever the economy hits a bump, there are going to be some serious airline losses. $400 and under fares from NA to Europe just aren't fares any airline can survive on.
Pretty happy about this, DFW tends to be immune to any fare sales, hopefully some transatlantic competition will help this.
This is fantastic news for DFW, which has long been an AA fortress with minimal TATL competition to make prices competitive.
I won't touch WOW with a 10-foot pole, but I'm happy that AA is going to have some new pressure at DFW.
Would be great to see them run a 5th freedom route to somewhere south with that downtime.
Itd be nice to see AA offer cheaper DFW-LHR fares now that WOW is coming. Getting kind of tired of booking DFW-LAX and LAX-LHR separately for any sort of savings
"So be sure you crunch the numbers before booking, so you can figure out if you’re actually getting a good deal. Nowadays transatlantic flights are often also inexpensive on “full service” airlines, so the savings might not be that big in all case"
As a Dallas resident i can contribute here. It is not acknowledged by the airline bloggers but Dallas has some of the most expensive international air fares in the country. That is because AA and BA act as a monopoly, cooperating on pricing and via the Oneworld revenue share.
As a result (per Google flights) a coach round trip to London (my most frequent destination) is usually around $1,200, vs. $400 in Chicago (a similar distance from London) and $500 from New York.
Against that background WOWs entry is the most important event in Dallas-Fort Worth international aviation in years. It breaks the cartel on the most popular International route and I predict fares to London will halve when WOW begins service.
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Yeah but I think the issue then would be crew. Usually the westbound crew flies back 24 hours later. You'd need an extra crew to do the leg to Cancun, or wherever
I agree with my metroplex amigos. AA is in desparate need of international competition. This is great news for those of us that fly from DFW!
AA has near monopoly at DFW and AA acts like a monopoly. There is zero domestic award seats avail to/from DFW on AA and international award seats avail are horrible courtesy of the new AAdvantage President.