6th April 2020 By Staff Reporter | news@tourismticker.com | @tourismticker
American Airlines has included an Auckland to Los Angeles route in a new summer schedule, which it says has been stripped back to reflect reduced customer demand related to Covid-19.
The airline said on Friday that it expected to resume its existing service to Auckland from Los Angeles at the end of October – slightly later than the early October start date that had been slated.
It suspended flights to New Zealand, Australia, Asia, Europe and South America in mid-March.
The carrier’s planned new services to Auckland from Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, and Christchurch from Los Angeles, which were to begin in October 2020, would now start in the New Zealand summer of 2020-21.
The new schedule means the airline had suspended more than 60% of its total international capacity this northern hemisphere summer, compared with the same peak period in 2019.
This includes an 80% reduction in Pacific capacity, 65% reduction in Atlantic capacity and 48% reduction in Latin America capacity.
“These changes are due to significantly decreased customer demand as well as government travel restrictions — both related to the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic,” said the carrier.
American Airlines Group was the world’s largest airline by fleet size, passengers carried and revenue passenger mile in 2019, although fellow US carrier, Delta, was the largest by revenue coming in at US$44.9bn ahead of Americans US$44.5bn.
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