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American
Airlines / Eagle announces major reductions in the region.
Date Posted: June 02, 2008.
American Airlines announced Friday it will reduce its
flights into San Juan, Puerto Rico hub from 38 daily flights
to 18 daily flights from September 3rd. American Eagle will
also reduce its Caribbean schedule from 55 daily departures
from San Juan, Puerto Rico to 33 come September 3rd.
While American Airlines will continue its schedule from
Miami and New York, American Eagle will reduce its flights
to St. Kitts from 3 to 1 and to Nevis, from two to one
flight daily.
American will no longer offer non-stop, daily service to San
Juan from Baltimore/Washington, Fort Lauderdale, Newark,
Orlando, Los Angeles and Washington Dulles.
American will continue to offer nonstop service to San Juan
from Boston, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York JFK,
Philadelphia and Hartford.
In the Caribbean, American Airlines will no longer serve
Antigua, St. Maarten and Santo Domingo with jet service out
of San Juan.
American Eagle will eliminate daily flights from San Juan to
Aruba as well as to Samana, Dominican Republic. Both
destinations will continue to be served daily from Miami.
American Eagle will continue to serve San Juan with 33 daily
flights to the following destinations: Anguilla; Antigua;
Barbados; Bonaire; Canouan; Curacao; Dominica; Martinique;
La Romana, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Santiago and Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Nevis; St. Croix;
St. Kitts; St. Lucia; St. Marten; St. Thomas; Tortola; and
Trinidad.
However Eagle flights daily will be reduced from six to two
between St. Croix; from 9 to 2 between St. Thomas; from 3 to
1 between St. Kitts; from 2 to 1 between Nevis and from 8 to
3 between the British Virgin Islands.
American Eagle also plans to move some of its 66-seat Super
ATR-72 turboprops to Dallas and will ground its fleet of
34-seat Saab 340s (the carrier has 26 of these planes).
In a message to employees, Bowler said that “the crisis in
the airline business is real, and the steps American is
taking to reduce its schedule are necessary.”
