AA drops GLA

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AA will be back in Glasgow next summer as always.

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From the Glasgow Evening Times.

AMERICAN Airlines today axed its direct flights from Glasgow to Chicago.
The airline is understood to be restructuring its UK and Ireland operations and has decided to ditch the summer service which ran to O’Hare International Airport.
It only relaunched this year’s seasonal service from Glasgow to Chicago on May 2. The flights, which took eight hours, were expected to operate daily until September 30, but today the firm pulled the plug on the route.
The news comes just days after hundreds of passengers faced huge delays in Glasgow and Chicago after two flights were cancelled.
An American Airlines flight from Chicago was due to arrive at Glasgow Airport on Monday morning.
Leslie Peden, the airline’s UK sales director, insisted in February that the service was attracting enough interest and was increasingly successful.
However, airline sources say passenger uptake on the transatlantic route, has not been as good as expected.
They claim American Airlines does not have a large a sales presence in Scotland and it was difficult for it to attract corporate travellers.
Glasgow Airport bosses BAA Glasgow, today said they would like to concentrate on all-year-round routes to the USA and were in talks with other airlines about potential routes to the USA.
A spokesman said: “We are disappointed at the loss of this summer service to Chicago.
“However, we are in discussion with other carriers interested in operating year round from Glasgow to major cities in the US, and we are hopeful of making progress in the weeks ahead. The US remains an important tourism market.”
No-one from American Airlines was available to comment on the flights.

Publication date 03/08/06

Disappointing news. However with rising oil prices, that has probably been this routes down-fall as loads always seem to be high which would suggest poor yields. I believe the route only just broke even last summer? Could it be summer only tx routes just aren’t viable anymore with ever rising oil prices?

Your right ”apparently” it doesnt apply to charter flights yet when EI operated DUB-MCO which they operated as a charter it stopped in SNN and now that MON are operating a once weekly DUB-SFB it returns to DUB via SNN.

We have our fingers crossed over here that the goverment is going to announce that they are going to cut the emphasis on SNN so that for every 3 nonstop TX flights from DUB you must operate 1 to SNN.

The same applies with Canada only thats alot more complicated but at the moment AC and TSC operate via SNN.

If you have ever wondered why EI operate to so few US cities its because the air agreement states that they may only operate to LAX,JFK,EWR,ORD and BOS. MCO was operated as a charter and BWI was able to operate because of some route development fund. However US carriers may operate from any city in the US to DUB and SNN. We are also praying that the goverment here are going to negotiate a new agreement which will allow EI access to more citys stateside with SFO,PHL and DFW the hot favourites.

There’s a bilateral agreement between Ireland and the USA that airlines operating scheduled flights between the United States and Ireland have to serve both Dublin and Shannon.

This goes back to the days when airliners didn’t have the legs to cross the Atlantic from Dublin in one go and were forced to stop at Shannon to refuel.

There used to have to be a stop in both directions, but eventually the rule was changed to require one direct Shannon flight for every direct Dublin flight and the upshot is that some US-Dublin services still include a superfluous stop at Shannon.

As far as I know there’s a similar agreement for scheduled flights between Ireland and Canada, but this doesn’t apply to some charter services.

AA have announced that they will be dropping their BOS-SNN service this winter due to awful loads but willcontinue their DUB-ORD service unfortunatley with the Ireland/US bilateral air aggrement the way it is it meens the ORD-DUB service now has to route ORD-DUB-SNN-ORD. I wish SNN would just go away.

Hi, don’t know much about this so excuse the ignorance but why do a lot of TX flights from DUB need to go via SNN? It seems really strange but I don’t know anything about it…

AA have announced that they will be dropping their BOS-SNN service this winter due to awful loads but willcontinue their DUB-ORD service unfortunatley with the Ireland/US bilateral air aggrement the way it is it meens the ORD-DUB service now has to route ORD-DUB-SNN-ORD. I wish SNN would just go away.

Well it looks like American have dropped the winter Miami service from Manchester, but is keeping the Boston flight all year round, and looks keeping it daily aswell unlike the Miami service last year! some good news about AA!

Jon

Look on Amedeus for next summer. GLA-ORD shows as going via MAN, AMS or LHR.
MAN-ORD shows up with AA and BD.
GLA-ORD doesn’t show as a nonstop flight in August.

Anyway, even though GLA-ORD seems to be getting dropped, apparently there is a US airline that may announce GLA-DTW in the near future 😉

I hope your right about a “replacement” airline but why on earth would any airline want to start USA-GLA service on the back of AA axing it after something like 12 years?

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I’m not claming to have one. You are saying things are definitely happening but you cant back them up…

Look on Amedeus for next summer. GLA-ORD shows as going via MAN, AMS or LHR.
MAN-ORD shows up with AA and BD.
GLA-ORD doesn’t show as a nonstop flight in August.

Anyway, even though GLA-ORD seems to be getting dropped, apparently there is a US airline that may announce GLA-DTW in the near future 😉

A lot of rumours are readily available on Airliners.net forum for people to believe.

Indeed, if we believed everything on airlines.net then EDI would be closed by now, FlyGlobespan would be operating to Boston by now, AA would be operating GLA-BOS by now, non off them came true so why believe this one, especial when you can still book GLA-ORD on the AA site.

A lot of rumours are readily available on Airliners.net forum for people to believe.

Got a source of your own Mr Troll?

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I’m not claming to have one. You are saying things are definitely happening but you cant back them up…

Source? Or as usually you just going along with the rumours?

Got a source of your own Mr Troll?

AA are indeed pulling out of Glasgow after this summer 🙁

Source? Or as usually you just going along with the rumours?

AA are indeed pulling out of Glasgow after this summer 🙁

AMERICAN AIRLINES
53 GLA
Glasgow 06/04/2007 11:15 AM ORD
Chicago 06/04/2007 01:10 PM 763 Economy
View Seats 3676 Lunch
Snack

AMERICAN AIRLINES
52 ORD
Chicago 06/08/2007 08:00 PM GLA
Glasgow 06/09/2007 09:15 AM 763 Economy
View Seats 3676 Breakfast
Dinner

This rumour was no doubt started by the same person that said United were pulling out of Heathrow – fat chance of that! :rolleyes:

Well if AA do leave GLA I hope BAA and the current management quickly follow them…