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Also starts testing in-flight Internet access
After saying last month that it intends to reduce its overall domestic capacity by 11-12 percent in the fourth quarter of this year, American Airlines has revealed a bit more detail. The airline had already said it would stop all service in September to Oakland and to London Stansted; now it added that in November, it will close down its station at Barranquilla, Colombia. Also in November, the company said, American Eagle will stop flying to Albany, N.Y.; Providence, R.I.; Harrisburg, Pa.; and San Luis Obispo, Calif. It had already announced the end of Eagle flights to Samana in the Dominican Republic. American also announced some schedule reduction numbers for its hub airports without route-by-route specifics – for example, it said it will eliminate 28 mainline flights at Chicago O’Hare along with 34 American Eagle departures there. St. Louis will lose eight mainline departures as well as 35 American Eagle and AmericanConnection flights. And at Dallas/Ft. Worth, American will trim 19 mainline flights and 23 Eagle departures from its schedule. Also on the chopping block are five mainline and 37 Eagle flights at New York LaGuardia. American said that flight delays at LaGuardia affect 25 percent of all departures and 40 percent of all arrivals, mainly due to “Air Traffic Control’s inability to handle the scheduled service levels,” and it said that its own plan to eliminate 42 daily departures at LaGuardia “could allow the airport to operate with less chronic disruption and improve customer experience.”
American last week also started in-flight testing of its new in-flight Internet access, developed with technology partner AirCell LLC. The airline started offering the service at no cost on one daily flight from New York JFK to Los Angeles and one in the reverse direction. The company later plans to deploy the techno logy on 767-200 aircraft that operate between New York-LAX, New York-San Francisco and New York-Miami, charging about $10 to $13. The system will permit wireless access to email, instant messaging, and links to secure company networks via WiFi-capable laptops and other devices. Access will be free to American’s own site, and to some news headlines and travel guides.
