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SKNVibes.com News: AA continues service to St. Kitts, Eagle reduces schedule to Nevis and St. Kitts

American Airlines continues service to St. Kitts,
Eagle reduces daily schedule to Nevis and St. Kitts


BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, MAY 30TH 2008 (CUOPM) – American Airlines will continue to fly into the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport from John F. Kennedy International Airport and Miami International, but American Eagle will reduce its daily service from San Juan to Nevis and St. Kitts.

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.”



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soon the only way to get there will be by sea kayak...

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LMAO Joe Soap if you can find a kayak how about we just all swim to the caribbean.

I really dont think this will affect us that much. They know, trust me, they know when we fly home. They have records as to when the planes were jam packed with people and its us, MUA students, coming to and from Nevis in large number around certain days. So I imagine when our semester begins and when our semester ends they are still going to have flights no different then now. But if you wanted to come here for vacation around another time, I can see that being a pain. Its all hype no different then baggage charge scare -

I didn't know airlines changed their schedules for "low/high" periods...seems like it would cost them more money to do that.

since there is more than 1 airline that services nevis if there is consistent increase in passengers during certain times of the year, they will increase the number of flights to increase profits. Otherwise, their planes sit at the airports and generate no revenue while requiring the same fixed costs. I noticed that when booking flights there were times that the flights were full, then a few weeks later there were flights available, indicating that they added additional flights.

american stated that they are repositioning alot of their atr's to dallas. there will be no repositioning back for high volume periods. even if a few flights are profitable during the start of a semester.... it will cost the airline more money to get a plane available for that extra flight or two. it will not happen. they are laying off hundreds at the sju hub.

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I didn't know airlines changed their schedules for "low/high" periods...seems like it would cost them more money to do that.


Actually the airlines have in the past changed thier schedules to accomodate increased arrivals for the Caribbean "tourist season" between Dec 15 - March 15, but for those students who think they will put on a flight to accomodate a few hundred medical students , **********************.

It seems like the plane that flys between Nevis and San Juan serviced by American Eagle (AA) spends the evenings and nights sitting at the airport at Nevis (can be seen simply by driving by the airport which is between town and the school). I believe they are proposing having the Flight from Nevis leave once per day rather than twice, starting in September. Increasing flights to/from Nevis may mean simply using the same plane for an additional flights; on the other hand, they do use the ATR72 for Nevis flights, so who knows.

The airline market is very unpredictable, but AA will make some adjustments with time. The present predicarment is attributable to current fuel saga that is adding stress to the aviation industry in general. There should be cause to panic, becasue the market will even out with time. AA is one of the most aggressive organization and can adapt to any situation.

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