American Airways provides 2 new summer time flights from LaGuardia Airport

American Airways retains rising its presence at New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA).

This week, the service is including two new routes from LGA simply in time for the height summer time season, as first seen in Cirium schedules and later confirmed by a service spokesperson. The brand new routes will service two cities in South Carolina: Charleston and Myrtle Seaside.

American’s affiliate Republic Airways will function each flights utilizing the Embraer E170 household of regional jets, that includes first-class, extra-legroom financial system and normal financial system cabins.

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Service from LGA to Charleston Worldwide Airport (CHS) will begin June 6 on a twice-weekly foundation. Flights will function on Fridays and Saturdays. In the meantime, once-weekly service to Myrtle Seaside Worldwide Airport (MYR) takes off June 7 and can function on Saturdays via August.

American shared in a press release that “this summer time, American Airways is bringing prospects nearer to their favourite seafood locations, new reminiscences alongside the shore, or to a golf journey with mates with new weekend service to Charleston (CHS) and Myrtle Seaside (MYR) from New York (LGA). American provides prospects extra handy schedules and itineraries when touring throughout our world community with extra flights from MYR and CHS than every other airline.”

Each of those routes are technically resumptions for American. The route from LaGuardia to Charleston final flew in April 2020, whereas service to Myrtle Seaside final flew in 2021.

Both means, these routes increase the airline’s attraction within the New York Metropolis space for leisure-focused vacationers, they usually come on the heels of not too long ago added service from LaGuardia to Orlando, New Orleans, Tampa and West Palm Seaside, Florida.

American is not simply attempting to attraction to leisure prospects. Final week, the service doubled the variety of flights it’s going to provide on one of many nation’s most iconic enterprise routes from LaGuardia to Boston.

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The backstory behind all of those new flights appears to be that American needs to extend its relevance in New York. That is very true now that the airline must compete within the Massive Apple with out an help from its former Northeast Alliance companion JetBlue Airways.

Earlier this decade, American and JetBlue teamed as much as create an alliance that boosted their scale in New York and Boston, combining networks, providing reciprocal frequent flyer perks and extra. The Northeast Alliance noticed the introduction of a slew of recent routes and locations for each carriers. American and JetBlue mentioned they needed to higher compete with Delta Air Traces and United Airways in New York (Delta and United are the area’s two largest airways).

The partnership turned out to be short-lived; the Division of Justice efficiently blocked the tie-up on anticompetitive grounds, and the 2 airways formally severed ties in summer time 2023.

Ever since then, American and JetBlue have wanted to compete independently in New York (and Boston). JetBlue’s technique has known as for a large retreat in New York, particularly at LaGuardia, the place the airline simply minimize flights to Boston, amongst others.

American, in the meantime, has picked up a few of the slack left by JetBlue, including flights to extra leisure and enterprise locations.

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