AA Ending SAL soon?

[captmidnight]

I work with this lady from El Salvador and she is looking for tickets to go home. She said TACA charges $600 or so round trip. So I helped by going to AA. I forgot the date but sometime in late July or early August a connection to MIA is required to go to SAL. Is this part of AA's route cuts? If so, then TACA will be staying at DFW for a while then without competition. Can somebody confirm?

[captmidnight]

My friend purchased ticket to San Salvador outbound in August and back in May. So there, AA is not discontinuing nonstop service to SAL from DFW

[matt]

I think the SAL route is very new. And I think I know what the problem is. It's not daily service. It operates Monday, Weds, Fri, Sat. So if you look for a flight on Tues, Thurs, or Sun from DFW-SAL, all you will see are MIA connections. For a nonstop, you need to choose one of the applicable days.

This is one of those things where a travel agency is actually useful. They usually aren't, but if you are looking for a flight on the intenet, and were looking for, let's say, a Tuesday, you'd think the flight no longer exists. A travel agent on a Sabre set would see the XTQS which tells them except Tuesday, Thurs, Sun.

Oh well, I digress. Have they already bought their ticket? If not, maybe they can still fly nonstop.

Only three AA route cuts have been loaded so far. None of them from DFW. I don't think many routes will be cut. They'll just be thinned a little (meaning rather than 6 daily flights to somewhere, you'll see 4 or 5). The revised schedule will be out in a week or two. Cutting an uneconomical route has a financial benefit. Cutting a marginal route doesn't have the economic benefit that trimming it does. It squeezes it for higher margins if you just trim it a little!

Matt

[matt]

Here's proof it exists!

[Greg]

I believe TACA runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and I heard they are adding a Saturday flight for a few weeks. That should give DFW pretty much daily service to SAL.

[matt]

I noticed TACA boarding to SAL last Thursday as I was making my quick get-away for the 4th.

Looks like TACA flies every day but Weds, Fri, Sun. So the nonstop A319 DFW-SAL is Mon, Tues, Thurs, Sat.

TA* 441 C6 J4 I4 Y0 M0 Q0*DFWSAL 335P 605P 319 L 0 XWFS /E
N0 K0 H0 V0 U G0 B0 W0 O0¶
OPERATED BY TACA INTL¶

[captmidnight]

I'm overseas and I only get to check on the site occassionally, but I read on Star Telegram that AA is cutting/axing SAL from DFW. So there it goes........

[TeRenCeBeN]

I don't think many routes will be cut. They'll just be thinned a little (meaning rather than 6 daily flights to somewhere, you'll see 4 or 5). The revised schedule will be out in a week or two.