American Airways is the most recent to announce new flights for subsequent summer time, together with flights to Africa for the primary time and American’s long-awaited return to Israel.
- Philadelphia (PHL) to Casablanca, Morocco (CMN) begins June 4
- Dallas-Fort Price (DFW) to Tel Aviv, Israel (TLV) begins Sept. 9
- Chicago (ORD) to Krakow, Poland (KRK) begins Might 7
- ORD to Budapest, Hungary (BUD) begins Might 7
- ORD to Prague, Czech Republic (PRG) begins Might 8
These flights will likely be virtually solely on Boeing 787 Dreamliners (American will fly a 757 to Casablanca), realizing the dream of Boeing once they have been promoting it to airways, that they might be used for main and secondary markets attributable to their effectivity and passenger consolation.
Why the Casablanca flight makes numerous sense
Trying throughout the Strait of Gibraltar at Morocco in 2004
Royal Air Maroc (Morocco’s nationwide airline) will likely be becoming a member of the Oneworld alliance in January. Africa has lengthy been a gap in American’s route community, just because it’s so laborious to earn cash flying super-longhaul flights there. I’m unsure flying to Africa made a bunch of sense by itself however now that there will likely be a Oneworld airline there for onward connections it’s a no brainer. American may have a comparatively brief flight to Casablanca, a preferred vacationer vacation spot in its personal proper, and can rely upon the Royal Air Maroc community for additional connections into the continent.
I personally haven’t been to Casablanca however traveled to elsewhere in Morocco in 2000 and 2001 and located the folks there to be extremely pleasant, form, and hospitable.
The return to Israel
Many individuals have been confused when American pulled out of Israel by canceling the legacy US Airways PHL-TLV nonstop flight a couple of years in the past. The reasoning supplied on the time, that it had at all times misplaced cash, contradicted earlier govt statements calling the route “profitable”. Some imagine some authorized claims from ex-TWA staff in Tel Aviv contributed to the choice however others strongly disagreed. Regardless, it was unhappy that there was not a nonstop Oneworld flight to Israel from the USA.
Now not. American will fly nonstop from DFW to Tel Aviv. In what I imagine will likely be American’s Fifth-longest flight, American will fly a 787-9 to Tel Aviv 3x weekly beginning subsequent September.
I visited Israel in 2012 and the journey was so unbelievable that it impressed me to start out a journey weblog (which you’re studying at present!).
Israel is a lovely nation with nice meals and great folks. I do know there are political and spiritual tensions there and am selecting particularly to not point out something about them. I feel it’s nice that there will likely be a nonstop flight from my house airport to Tel Aviv.
Jap Europe: so sizzling proper now
American beforehand launched flights from Philadelphia to Prague and Budapest, which I’m guessing are doing rather well, as a result of they’re including extra flights from Chicago! As well as, American will now fly to Krakow, one among Poland’s most lovely cities.
Phrase is lastly spreading that Jap Europe (okay truthfully it bugs me that we name locations like Prague “Jap Europe” when it’s smack in the course of the continent however I digress) is completely pleasant to go to in the summertime.
Good work, American
I do know I might be laborious on American generally however these new locations are absolute winners in my view. I’ve been eager to return to Morocco and Israel for years and Budapest and Poland have been close to the highest of my checklist for Europe, so I’m very completely satisfied.
Now…DFW-Auckland, let’s see it!
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