I don’t know how long we have been doing it in the summer but i did it this summer

 

Good to know. Thanks!

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We used to fly Copenhagen from ATL and JFK, and Stockholm from JFK year round. A few years ago, we went seasonal to both destinations, then dropped ATL-CPN (ID?). Then dropped Stockholm completely a year or two ago.

I loved Stockholm, but I could only hold it in January and February when I was on the ER. I’ve never been closer to having my ears literally freeze off than a January night in Stockholm walking back from dinner. WOW, the senior guys knew what they were doing with that one.

 

There were a few other, um, Oslo, Helsinki, St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Hamburg, Lyon, Vienna, etc. Long list.

 

Careful, Buck Rogers is going to hammer on you next for “complaining”. I think he wants us to believe he’s been here since the Pan Am merger.

 

Delta moved a lot of Europe destinations to Paris connections flown by AF during the bankruptcy, and Amsterdam shortly after the merger. There used to be a lot more direct routes from the U.S. to medium size European cities before the JVs.

 

That makes me old, doesn't it

 

That stuff actually went away in the 2009/2010 timeframe with the JV cranking up and the economy in the pooper. It peaked in 2008.

 

While this is good news, it also bums me out some. When I see other airlines “increase international flying,” they announce new destinations and maybe one extra route to an already served location. For us, it’s the same destinations from just another US city or boosted frequency. Feels like we aren’t trying to become the globally recognized brand like they claim, but more of a brand recognized mostly by Paris, AMS, and London.

 

Resumption of service, new service...you're really splitting hairs here. We're currently not flying that route, soon we will be. Lol, and some call the millennial generation needy...

In all fairness, you only ever hear about the other airlines opening a new route, but hardly notice the article when they quietly shut that route down the following year. Or that it was only opened after closing another route.

I'd love to fly to every 'burg and 'ville throughout the world, as it would be great to see all those cities on the company's dime. But not at the expense of long term stability and profitablity. Sure we used to go to all those destinations...back when we were happy to just break even or make just a few million and there wasn't a LCC in every city. Not saying that these routes weren't/can't be profitable, but we seem to be doing something right. That's said, we're making ridiculous cash now and we're seeing LCCs fail left and right. Time to explore those destinations again (which is seems they're doing) and see if there is money to be made.