American Airlines flights on the schedule, thoughts after one month

[UAL001 Gary Price]

Please let us know your feedback! Thanks!

[UAL124 Joel Wolk]

I am one of the "no" votes but wanted to elaborate...

I am perfectly happy with the United routes available to me and will continue to fly them. These fulfill the entirety of my "personal needs" to be a virtual airline pilot.

Having said the above, now, I do fully support the AA flights on the schedule... simply on the idea that if this helps this VA to thrive and flourish, then I definitely prefer to have them there --- even if I am not personally using them.

Hope that makes sense.

[UAL001 Gary Price]

Joel,

Thanks for the note. Really appreciate the feedback! Yes, your answer makes sense! Thank you!

Gary

[UAL701 Tim Haibach]

While I will always prefer flying United routes, I have found it convenient that AAL flights add the ability for me to fly my aircraft of choice- B737-800 on a short route between Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth. The AAL routes also opened up a couple tropical routes to the Bahamas that I plan to fly.

Adding the AAL routes didn't influence any increase of the # of flights over the past month, but definitely provided route variety. So, I appreciate the addition of the AAL routes for flexibility considering it would be almost a full time job to realistically mirror the United flight schedule as can be searched on Flightaware.com.

[UAL043 Victor Cabrales]

I personally think that adding AA is a good move but I would also like to see some freight carriers. Maybe drop the airline that is used the least based on PIREPs and adding FedEx or UPS cargo routes. I've spoken to a few of our pilots about it and they agree that mixing it up with some freight sectors would make the VA even more varied. Just my two cents.

[UAL909 Filipe Nunez]

I am perfectly happy with the United routes available to me and will continue to fly them. These fulfill the entirety of my "personal needs" to be a virtual airline pilot.

Having said the above, now, I do fully support the AA flights on the schedule... simply on the idea that if this helps this VA to thrive and flourish, then I definitely prefer to have them there --- even if I am not personally using them.

Hope that makes sense.

Same, no harm in keeping them and since the MD80 has been removed from AA fleet, i might fly that old bird in the future

[UAL023 Jeremy Young]

Bring it on. Now, will I have to leave my other AA VA is the question...

[UAL006 Pat Schoof]

@Jeremy, I do not think so. I left the one I was with not exclusively because of our schedule change(s).

Pat

[UAL141 Thierry Nguepdjo]

I personally think that adding AA is a good move but I would also like to see some freight carriers. Maybe drop the airline that is used the least based on PIREPs and adding FedEx or UPS cargo routes. I've spoken to a few of our pilots about it and they agree that mixing it up with some freight sectors would make the VA even more varied. Just my two cents.

I second this! It would definitely be nice to fly some cargo routes and open up additional city pairings that way. I also appreciate and enjoy the variety that having the AA routes has added. I will be leaving my AA VA as a result of this and I'd rather put in the hours here.