American Airlines announced yesterday that it’s adding four new non-stop flights out of Miami: Austin and San Antonio, Tx; Kansas City, Mo.; and Salt Lake City, Ut. Tickets for these new non-stops go on sale October 5, 2014 but service doesn’t start until March 5, 2015.
American will use Boeing 737-800s on the daily round-trip flights, and all four routes have early morning departures to Miami and a later evening return:
Miami-AUS
Departs Austin at 6:10 a.m. CT
Arrives at Miami at 9:58 a.m. ET
Departs Miami at 7:50 p.m. ET
Arrives at Austin at 9:58 p.m. CT
Miami-MCI
Departs Kansas City at 6 a.m. CT
Arrives at Miami at 10:09 a.m. ET
Departs Miami at 7:55 p.m. ET
Arrives at Kansas City at 10:05 p.m. CT
MIA-SLC
Departs Salt Lake City at 12:59 a.m. MT
Arrives at Miami at 7:50 a.m. ET
Departs Miami at 7:55 p.m. ET
Arrives at Salt Lake City at 11:11 p.m. MT
MIA-SAT
Departs San Antonio at 6:10 a.m. CT
Arrives at Miami at 10:03 a.m. ET
Departs Miami at 7:50 p.m. ET
Arrives at San Antonio at 9:58 p.m. CT
Meanwhile, American Airlines also filed with the US Department of Transportation on Thursday for the rights to take over some of Delta’s service to Tokyo’s closer-in Haneda airport.
In the filing, it said that Delta is not using its service from Seattle effectively. American says that Delta is only planning to serve the Seattle-Haneda route only 17 times between now and the end of March, instead of the 182 possible days.
“American vigorously opposes any use of these valuable Haneda rights on a seasonal basis, and we stand ready to use them fully on a year-round basis,†American Airlines said in the filing. “The Department should not allow Delta to squander these valuable frequencies.â€
American said if they capture the slot, they would offer daily non-stop service from LAX to HND. Both Delta Airlines and All Nippon Airways already offer non-stop service from LAX to HND.
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Just a note that HND is not “Tokyo’s smaller” airport. HND is much larger than NRT and handles nearly twice the traffic.
Thanks for the heads-up! I’ve had Chicago Midway and Chicago O’Hare on my mind all week, and I just associate being closer-in, like MDW and HND, being smaller, where by being further out, it’s bigger — but it’s not! Thanks again!
I would prefer to see a DFW-HND over LAX. Nobody serves DFW-HND direct. DFW is a bigger AA hub. Service out of LAX seems to make less sense because Delta, United and ANA already serve HND non-stop from there.