American Airways is rising its worldwide community as soon as once more.
This time, the Fort Price-based provider is including a brand-new dot to its route map and increasing service to Latin America.
Moreover, the airline is proposing a brand new route to attach New York with Tokyo.
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American’s 3 new routes to Tulum
American has simply grow to be the third U.S. provider to announce flights to Tulum’s new airport (TQO). The airline will start 4 day by day flights — throughout three routes — to Tulum starting March 28, 2024.
This consists of twice-daily year-round flights from Dallas/Fort Price, in addition to once-daily frequencies from Charlotte and Miami. In complete, the provider says it could possibly provide one-stop itineraries to Tulum from 200 locations throughout the U.S.
American will solely function the Boeing 737 on these routes.
Up to now, attending to Tulum hasn’t essentially been straightforward.
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One of the vital frequent methods to get there was to fly to Cancun after which drive to your resort or trip rental. Cancun is already extremely nicely served by American — the airline provides as much as 40 peak-day flights from 18 U.S. gateways — however the drive inside Mexico hasn’t essentially been too interesting.
Non-public transfers value round $100, they usually add about 90 minutes or extra to the general journey journey.
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It is no shock then to see American launching service to Tulum’s new worldwide airport, which is scheduled to open by the tip of the 12 months.
The truth is, American is not the primary U.S. airline to announce flights there. Final month, Delta Air Strains unveiled a brand new route from Atlanta to Tulum.
This was adopted about two weeks later by Spirit Airways asserting new flights to Tulum from Fort Lauderdale and Orlando.
With its 4 day by day flights, American would be the largest airline serving Tulum, which jibes with the provider’s community technique of being the biggest U.S. airline serving Latin America — extra on that beneath.
American’s expanded Latin America service
American has lengthy been one of many largest U.S. airways flying south of the border, and now the airline is out with a notable growth.
The provider is rising service on 11 routes in the course of the upcoming summer season season, as you may see within the chart beneath.
All of those elevated frequencies start on June 5, 2024.
| From | To | Service Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | Bridgetown, Barbados | Increase to day by day service |
| Charlotte | Liberia, Costa Rica | Increase to day by day service |
| Charlotte | St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Dallas/Fort Price | Guatemala Metropolis, Guatemala | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Dallas/Fort Price | San Jose, Costa Rica | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Miami | Antigua | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Miami | Anguilla | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Miami | Georgetown, Guyana | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Miami | Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
| Miami | Providenciales, Turks and Caicos | Increase to a few day by day flights |
| Miami | Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic | Increase to 2 day by day flights |
In complete, American will serve greater than 90 locations in Latin America subsequent summer season. This simply makes American the biggest U.S. provider within the area.
The second-largest provider, United, operates to “simply” 58 airports in Latin America, Cirium schedules present.
American’s proposed New York-to-Tokyo flight
U.S. airways cannot merely resolve that they need to fly to Tokyo’s handy Haneda Airport (HND) after which simply begin service there.
That is as a result of the Japanese authorities have saved a good management on slots — or takeoff and touchdown permissions — for long-haul flights on the Haneda Airport.
In 2019, the U.S. Division of Transportation (DOT) labored with the Japanese authorities to allocate extra slots at Haneda to a number of home carriers. These slots got here with a use-it-or-lose-it clause, and whereas this wasn’t enforced in the course of the pandemic, that short-term reduction is now historical past as of final month.
We have since seen two carriers — Delta and Hawaiian — announce that they would not use their total slot allocation to Haneda. As such, this permits different U.S. airways to swoop in and pitch the DOT on why they need to be allotted these additional slots.
Thus far, we have seen United Airways request permission to launch flights to Tokyo Haneda from Guam and Houston (the latter of which was simply formalized in a press launch on Thursday).
And final month, American petitioned the DOT to award slots for a brand new route from New York to Tokyo Haneda.
American is pitching a brand new day by day daytime route, operated by the Boeing 777-200, to enrich the prevailing one operated by Japan Airways, its Oneworld alliance and Pacific three way partnership associate, out there.
- New York to Tokyo: 10 a.m. — 1:05 p.m. (subsequent day)
- Tokyo to New York: 3:05 p.m. — 3:10 p.m.
Although the airline already filed its movement with the DOT final month, the provider is simply now selling the pitch as a part of its newest press launch.
“American seems to be ahead to presenting our aggressive utility to supply new and enhanced service to Tokyo’s handy Haneda Airport,” stated Molly Wilkinson, American’s vp of regulatory and worldwide authorities affairs, in an announcement.
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