American Airlines could introduce flights between Chicago and Dubrovnik in the coming years, with its new routes out of Philadelphia used as a testing ground for future operations out of the carrier’s O’Hare hub. American’s Vice President for Network and Schedule Planning, Vasu Raja, said, “As we go and start things in Philadelphia, and they work, it becomes a means to develop routes for Chicago. Barcelona, Venice, Prague and Budapest all started from Philadelphia, and we realised they could all work from Chicago too, given where the traffic was coming from”. Seasonal flights from Chicago to Budapest and Prague will launch in 2020, after two years of operations from Philadelphia.
The head of the Dubrovnik Tourist Board, Romana Vlašić, previously said the Philadelphia – Dubrovnik service would lead to the launch of new routes from the United States. "This pilot project with American Airlines will grow over the coming years to include more American cities as well as new airlines. We have been working intensively on the US market for years”. She added, “The American market is the second most strategically important for us in terms of visitors, just behind the United Kingdom. We expect flights to be extended throughout the season first and then for new routes to be added”.
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| Dubrovnik on the cover of this month's American Airlines magazine |
American Airlines will add an additional weekly frequency between Philadelphia and Dubrovnik starting next week for a total of four weekly until the end of September, with the service to resume on a daily basis in June of next year. “Dubrovnik went really really well for us”, Mr Raja said. He added, “We can connect 95% of the United States over Philadelphia, and [at] none of our competitors’ operations in New York or the northeast can they do anything really remotely close to that”. Prior to the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, JAT Yugoslav Airlines maintained a one weekly seasonal nonstop service from Dubrovnik to New York JFK, as well as a one weekly service to Chicago with its wide-body DC-10 aircraft. Furthermore, Pan Am offered daily connections to New York via its Frankfurt hub, using a Boeing 727 on the inter-European sector.
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But no, it's better to be idle and send everything via Mutti hubs at a loss.
But too early for 2021, I wish possibly in 2020.
Don't they have enough problems?
AA had really great figures so far even Business class often full or 90% full
Looking fwd to be in DBV in October again
No thanks, I don't want to give even more subsidies to OU.
Me too I wish in 2020.
Not all people are the same. Some people like to stare at various screens for 24 hours per day, some don't. Me for example. Also, sometimes during the night flight you cannot sleep because your neighbour's screen makes all the light. Not to mention that on "normal seats" which you dislike, sometimes you can lean forward to change tired body position, which you cannot if you have screen in front of you. And finally, God forbid, in case of en emergency landing/ditching, having "brace position" screen can fall out and hurt/cut your head or shoulders
@An.13.24
Correct. Not all AA routes (long-haul) will be operated by Dreamliner or A330 next year, some of them will remain on B767-300, DBV probably as well, as it would be too much to get daily frequency and bigger equipment after only one year of service, but during the next 2-3 years all AA flights will be switched to either A330 or B787 as 767's are getting phased out. So DBV will get bigger and newer plane as well, if not 2020 than 2021 or 2022
As better informed those American tourists are the much more Dubrovnik makes sense as a destination .
Naprimjer Rzeszow (Poljska) ima cjelogodišnju (1pw) liniju za Newark s LOT- om, a zračna luka ima tek 700.000 putnika. Također linije prema SAD imaju i Tashkent (2pw, Uzbekistan Airways), Baku (2pw Azal), Kiev (3pw, UIA), Beograd ( 6pw, Air Serbia).
I remember when i was in high school, it took me 12 hours to get from Zagreb to Sibenik.
Now, in those 12 hours i get from Dammam to Zagreb.
Go figure it out