Originally Posted by
VickersVicount
Regardless of engines, it won’t be happening (bold print emphasising or not). Outwith a short term rebound boost, even in good pre-covid times the 757’s rarely ran full.
You’ve now got Virgin and WS in the mix taking transatlantic connections.
Apart from UA, American about to start culling their regional Euro summer routes… Make of that what you will.
I appreciate your point that pre-covid the daily services to Newark may rarely have ran full; however GLA also had a service at this point too. So overall the Central belt is down to one daily flight to Newark which, for now at least, appears to be doing well but occasionally suffering due to the older airframes having issues.
IMO the VS MCO and WS/AC Toronto flights are a very different summer seasonal market to the Newark flights.
Newark is mainly about onward US connections or NYC so only DL directly competing.
Have you information suggesting that AA will not return to EDI in ‘23?