American Airways to Minimize These Routes to Las Vegas, Orlando, and Extra — Here is Why

American Airways goes again to fundamentals in Austin after experimenting with dozens of recent nonstop flights in the course of the pandemic.

The provider will now not be an choice for Austinites keen to go to Bourbon Road in New Orleans after October or take in the historical past of Boston’s Freedom Stroll after November. Nonstop flights to each cities are among the many seven that may finish within the subsequent few months.

Additionally gone are American’s nonstops from Austin to Las Vegas and Orlando in October; Nashville and Raleigh-Durham in November; and Orange County, Calif., in January 2025, Cirium Diio schedule knowledge exhibits.

The reductions deliver to an finish a pandemic experiment for American that peaked at nonstop flights from Austin to greater than 45 cities in early 2023.

The cuts are a part of a “steady analysis” of American’s community, an airline spokesperson instructed Journey + Leisure on Monday.

“American will proceed to supply prospects entry to our complete world community of greater than 350 locations with one-stop connections,” the spokesperson added.

Different components embrace the speedy airline trade progress in Austin in the course of the pandemic and the now slowing journey restoration. American has additionally confronted some pushback from labor teams to its enlargement within the Texas capital that’s lower than 200 miles from its important Dallas-Fort Price hub.

American will proceed to supply flights from Austin to eight of its hubs — Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Price, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, and Phoenix — plus seasonal nonstops to Aspen, Cancun, and Los Cabos.

Austinites nonetheless have loads of flight choices on routes the place American is ending service. Southwest Airways, the biggest provider in Austin, serves Las Vegas, Nashville, New Orleans, Orange County, Orlando, and Raleigh-Durham nonstop. And Delta Air Traces, which is slowly constructing a “focus metropolis” within the Texas metropolis, flies to Boston, Las Vegas, Nashville, New Orleans (from February), Orlando, and Raleigh-Durham.

Spirit Airways additionally flies from Austin to Las Vegas and Orlando, and JetBlue Airways to Boston.