Negative impacts on schedule planning
"American Airlines to Reduce International Flights Due to Boeing Dreamliner Delays" (The Wall Street Journal, A. Tangel, Dec. 9)
Relying on people reportedly familiar with the matter - as well as a draft internal memo made available to the WSJ - it is being reported that American has canceled plans for international flights next summer, because of ongoing delays with delivery of the 787s it has ordered and for which it is awaiting delivery. At least, it is not being reported that the carrier "was" expecting delivery but has given up - although the article does report that Boeing has approached unnamed airlines about possibly taking delivery of airplanes the orders for which could get canceled. (Kind of very much along the lines of what earlier posts (IIRC, Big Pistons) have projected....)
What is reported about American, though, is troubling enough:
"American won’t fly to Edinburgh; Shannon, Ireland; or Hong Kong next summer, and will reduce the frequency of flights to Shanghai, Beijing and Sydney, according to the memo viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The carrier isn’t bringing back seasonal flights to Prague or Dubrovnik, Croatia, and it is delaying the launch of certain routes, such as from Seattle to Bangalore, India, which it had announced before the pandemic hit.
“'Without these wide-bodies, we simply won’t be able to fly as much internationally as we had planned next summer, or as we did in summer 2019,' Vasu Raja, American’s chief revenue officer, wrote in the draft internal memo." (internal quotation as in original)
Last edited by WillowRun 6-3; 9th Dec 2021 at 13:41.
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