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This morning, American is announcing its schedule plans for Love Field. The following press release will go out shortly, and it includes the details of our announcement.
AMERICAN AND AMERICAN EAGLE WILL LAUNCH DALLAS LOVE FIELD
SERVICE ON MARCH 2 WITH 16 FLIGHTS A DAY
American Will Serve Love Field to St. Louis and Kansas City; American Eagle
Will Operate From Love Field to San Antonio and Austin
FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines announced today that it and its regional affiliate, American Eagle, will begin service at Dallas Love Field on March 2, 2006, with a total of 16 flights a day.
American will operate four flights a day between Love Field and St. Louis, and three flights daily on the Love Field-Kansas City route, with 136-seat MD80 jets featuring first-class as well as coach service. American Eagle will fly four times a day between Love Field and San Antonio, Tex., and five times a day between Love and Austin, Tex., using 50-seat Embraer 145 Regional-Jet aircraft.
“We have not, and will not, abandon our efforts in support of the Wright Amendment and all those in North Texas who want to keep DFW International Airport strong, vibrant and growing,” said Dan Garton, American’s Executive Vice President of Marketing. “DFW is the region’s greatest economic engine and was always intended to be the home for all commercial air service in Dallas/Fort Worth. American remains intensely devoted to that principle.
However, we have made it clear for many years that if Love Field were opened to longer-haul service, American must compete at Love Field in order to retain the large number of American Airlines customers who live closer to Love Field than to DFW.”
Garton said American and American Eagle will be devoting substantial energy over the next three months to providing a solid, professional customer experience at Love Field.
American, which owns the rights to three gates at Love Field, will require two gates for the March 2 schedule, one for American and the other for American Eagle. The airline is working with airport officials on arrangements for ticket counters and other facilities with which to service its customers efficiently.
The airline said it and American Eagle will be ready to open at Love on March 2 and will provide more details about its facilities there in coming weeks.
Here is some additional information for you regarding this announcement and what it means to AA/AE:
American Airlines will begin 16 non-stop flights from Dallas Love Field, effective March 2, 2006.
American will operate:
Four daily non-stops from Love Field to St. Louis
Three daily non-stops from Love Field to Kansas City
Five daily non-stops from Love Field to Austin
Four daily non-stops from Love Field to San Antonio
The markets selected for new service have proven popular with customers that live and work close to Love Field.
As AA and Eagle have said all along, the exemption of Missouri from the Wright Amendment has led AA to take necessary steps to ensure that we remain competitive with carriers that choose to operate from Love.
As a result of new service from Dallas Love Field, American and American Eagle will be reducing or adjusting service in the following communities:
Long Beach, Calif: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (four daily non-stop flights)
Providence, R.I.: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
Lima, Peru: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
St. Louis: Moving four non-stop flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining eight non-stop flights at DFW; net loss of one daily non-stop flight
Kansas City, Mo.: Moving three non-stop flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining seven non-stop flights at DFW; net loss of two non-stop daily flights
Austin, Texas: Moving five non-stop flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining 14 non-stop flights at DFW
San Antonio, Texas: Moving four flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining 12 flights at DFW
College Station, Texas: Reduction from six to three daily round-trips to DFW. In addition, one Saturday round-trip will be downgraded from an ERJ to a Saab
Tyler, Texas: Reduction from seven to four daily round-trips to DFW
Cincinnati, Ohio: Reduction from six to five daily round-trips to DFW
Green Bay, Wis.: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
Rochester, Minn.: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
San Angelo, Texas: Downgrade of one ERJ round-trip to a Saab 340
Shreveport, La.: Downgrade of two ERJ round-trips to Saab 340s
Killeen, Texas: Downgrade of one ERJ round-trip to a Saab 340
In addition, American Eagle had planned to reinstate service from DFW to Toledo, Ohio (one round-trip) on Jan. 10, 2006, but that service will not be reinstated
While regrettable, these decisions reflect American’s and American Eagle’s ongoing dilemma in light of challenging airline economic conditions in general, and in particular, the need to remain market-competitive by introducing service to Love Field, as a result of the exemption of Missouri from the Wright Amendment states.
Decisions on reductions in service were based on economics – in order to operate the new Love Field service, AA and Eagle are reducing service on lower-performing routes. The Missouri exemption is the basis for this decision.
The impact on jobs is unclear. American and/or American Eagle still operates in all of the cities that are seeing reductions in service.
American continues to enlist the support of all of its employees and the communities it serves to keep the Wright Amendment in place and prevent further erosion of the Amendment.
Q&A
Why are we moving service to Love Field?
As we've said all along, many of our customers in North Texas live and/or work closer to Love Field and we're simply not going to concede those passengers to Southwest. We believe this is an opportunity to highlight the differences in the product we offer versus that of Southwest and may even convert a few of their customers to AAdvantage members.
Won't we be losing money and damaging our DFW hub?
No question, this is a difficult decision. But we're certainly not going to sit back and do nothing while Southwest works to increase its 97 percent monopoly at Love Field. It would be far more costly not to compete with Southwest and abandon the customers we've worked so hard to keep.
Is this just an overreaction by AA?
Not at all. Remember, this is a fight we did not start. It was started by Southwest after pledging not to seek repeal of the Wright Amendment. While we're reluctantly moving flights to Love Field, we have developed a long-term plan that will ensure we're competitive.
American will continue to strongly advocate keeping the Wright amendment in place, and we will be calling on you in the weeks and months ahead for your continued support. Thanks for everything you’ve done so far!
Will Ris
AMERICAN AND AMERICAN EAGLE WILL LAUNCH DALLAS LOVE FIELD
SERVICE ON MARCH 2 WITH 16 FLIGHTS A DAY
American Will Serve Love Field to St. Louis and Kansas City; American Eagle
Will Operate From Love Field to San Antonio and Austin
FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines announced today that it and its regional affiliate, American Eagle, will begin service at Dallas Love Field on March 2, 2006, with a total of 16 flights a day.
American will operate four flights a day between Love Field and St. Louis, and three flights daily on the Love Field-Kansas City route, with 136-seat MD80 jets featuring first-class as well as coach service. American Eagle will fly four times a day between Love Field and San Antonio, Tex., and five times a day between Love and Austin, Tex., using 50-seat Embraer 145 Regional-Jet aircraft.
“We have not, and will not, abandon our efforts in support of the Wright Amendment and all those in North Texas who want to keep DFW International Airport strong, vibrant and growing,” said Dan Garton, American’s Executive Vice President of Marketing. “DFW is the region’s greatest economic engine and was always intended to be the home for all commercial air service in Dallas/Fort Worth. American remains intensely devoted to that principle.
However, we have made it clear for many years that if Love Field were opened to longer-haul service, American must compete at Love Field in order to retain the large number of American Airlines customers who live closer to Love Field than to DFW.”
Garton said American and American Eagle will be devoting substantial energy over the next three months to providing a solid, professional customer experience at Love Field.
American, which owns the rights to three gates at Love Field, will require two gates for the March 2 schedule, one for American and the other for American Eagle. The airline is working with airport officials on arrangements for ticket counters and other facilities with which to service its customers efficiently.
The airline said it and American Eagle will be ready to open at Love on March 2 and will provide more details about its facilities there in coming weeks.
Here is some additional information for you regarding this announcement and what it means to AA/AE:
American Airlines will begin 16 non-stop flights from Dallas Love Field, effective March 2, 2006.
American will operate:
Four daily non-stops from Love Field to St. Louis
Three daily non-stops from Love Field to Kansas City
Five daily non-stops from Love Field to Austin
Four daily non-stops from Love Field to San Antonio
The markets selected for new service have proven popular with customers that live and work close to Love Field.
As AA and Eagle have said all along, the exemption of Missouri from the Wright Amendment has led AA to take necessary steps to ensure that we remain competitive with carriers that choose to operate from Love.
As a result of new service from Dallas Love Field, American and American Eagle will be reducing or adjusting service in the following communities:
Long Beach, Calif: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (four daily non-stop flights)
Providence, R.I.: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
Lima, Peru: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
St. Louis: Moving four non-stop flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining eight non-stop flights at DFW; net loss of one daily non-stop flight
Kansas City, Mo.: Moving three non-stop flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining seven non-stop flights at DFW; net loss of two non-stop daily flights
Austin, Texas: Moving five non-stop flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining 14 non-stop flights at DFW
San Antonio, Texas: Moving four flights to Dallas Love Field; retaining 12 flights at DFW
College Station, Texas: Reduction from six to three daily round-trips to DFW. In addition, one Saturday round-trip will be downgraded from an ERJ to a Saab
Tyler, Texas: Reduction from seven to four daily round-trips to DFW
Cincinnati, Ohio: Reduction from six to five daily round-trips to DFW
Green Bay, Wis.: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
Rochester, Minn.: Cancellation of non-stop service to DFW (one round-trip)
San Angelo, Texas: Downgrade of one ERJ round-trip to a Saab 340
Shreveport, La.: Downgrade of two ERJ round-trips to Saab 340s
Killeen, Texas: Downgrade of one ERJ round-trip to a Saab 340
In addition, American Eagle had planned to reinstate service from DFW to Toledo, Ohio (one round-trip) on Jan. 10, 2006, but that service will not be reinstated
While regrettable, these decisions reflect American’s and American Eagle’s ongoing dilemma in light of challenging airline economic conditions in general, and in particular, the need to remain market-competitive by introducing service to Love Field, as a result of the exemption of Missouri from the Wright Amendment states.
Decisions on reductions in service were based on economics – in order to operate the new Love Field service, AA and Eagle are reducing service on lower-performing routes. The Missouri exemption is the basis for this decision.
The impact on jobs is unclear. American and/or American Eagle still operates in all of the cities that are seeing reductions in service.
American continues to enlist the support of all of its employees and the communities it serves to keep the Wright Amendment in place and prevent further erosion of the Amendment.
Q&A
Why are we moving service to Love Field?
As we've said all along, many of our customers in North Texas live and/or work closer to Love Field and we're simply not going to concede those passengers to Southwest. We believe this is an opportunity to highlight the differences in the product we offer versus that of Southwest and may even convert a few of their customers to AAdvantage members.
Won't we be losing money and damaging our DFW hub?
No question, this is a difficult decision. But we're certainly not going to sit back and do nothing while Southwest works to increase its 97 percent monopoly at Love Field. It would be far more costly not to compete with Southwest and abandon the customers we've worked so hard to keep.
Is this just an overreaction by AA?
Not at all. Remember, this is a fight we did not start. It was started by Southwest after pledging not to seek repeal of the Wright Amendment. While we're reluctantly moving flights to Love Field, we have developed a long-term plan that will ensure we're competitive.
American will continue to strongly advocate keeping the Wright amendment in place, and we will be calling on you in the weeks and months ahead for your continued support. Thanks for everything you’ve done so far!
Will Ris
