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American adds 5 new routes, including longest from LaGuardia, and much more
21.12.2024 - 16:35 / thepointsguy.com / Nova Scotia
American Airlines is making several big changes to its network.
The Fort Worth-based carrier filed plans over the weekend to launch five new routes, three of which are from its hub at New York's LaGuardia Airport (LGA). The updates were first seen in Cirium schedules and later confirmed by a carrier spokesperson.
American is also cutting one LaGuardia route, changing its wide-body deployment strategy and making several other changes.
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You'll find all the details below.
Headlining the updates is the addition of three new routes from LaGuardia.
American will start flying once-weekly Saturday-only service from LGA to:
All of the new routes will take off on June 7, and operate through Aug. 30.
American will deploy a Boeing 737 MAX 8 on all of the routes, which features 16 first-class recliners, 24 Main Cabin Extra economy seats and 132 standard economy seats.
At 2,035 miles, the flight from LaGuardia to Kalispell will become the longest route from LGA. Currently, Delta's flight from LGA to Salt Lake City comes in as the longest LGA route, measuring 1,982 miles, according to Cirium schedules.
These routes are somewhat of a rarity for LaGuardia. That's because of the airport's "perimeter rule," which restricts airlines from flying to airports that are farther than 1,500 miles away with just two exceptions — flights to Denver and any route operated on Saturdays.
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All three of American's new routes are longer than 1,500 miles, but the airline is taking advantage of the Saturday exception to make the routes work.
(LaGuardia is also slot-constrained, meaning that airlines need special takeoff and landing permissions to operate flights there, but slots are not needed for flights on Saturdays.)
While several airlines have long tried to make Saturday-only service work from LaGuardia, they haven't necessarily been successful since flyers typically prefer more frequencies across more days. (Just look at how Delta and Spirit have pared back their LaGuardia routes.)
This time, however, American is clearly making a play for leisure travelers.
"In summer 2025, American will launch five new routes to help connect customers with their favorite outdoor destinations. From convenient access to breathtaking glaciers, awe-inspiring wildlife, and unique natural landscapes, travelers planning their New Year's resolutions will have more ways to enjoy the great outdoors from Nova Scotia to Montana," an American spokesperson shared in a statement.
Continuing with the leisure theme, American will also add two other Saturday-only routes for next summer.
The first, Chicago to Halifax,
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