Delta operated a few AUS-AMS flights on a 763 for SXSW
Wouldnāt be too surprised to see it materialize sooner or later.
Thereās currently no flights between North Carolina and the Netherlands. DL has a much stronger network at RDU (although, most destinations are operated with regional jets) than AUS at the moment.
Although, AMS is pretty slot restricted. KLM said they will suspend AMS-HAV between May and Octoberā¦ assuming itās for Austin.
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Well DFW gets a Qantas A380ā¦ AUS and IAH get nothing from Qantas.
But ether way Iām happy for you Austin residents (I forget the proper term)
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Idkā¦ people kind of abuse the flag system tbh
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Austinites sir
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Future_engineer was right we need a Perth to Houston
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Your right thatās kinda like virgin Atlantic flying to Newark
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Thatās because Qantas and AA are both One World members, and are quite close in terms of partnerships. IAH is mostly Star Alliance because itās a United huhā¦and AUSā¦thatās now Skyteam mostly.
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Yeah, the big 3 present on Texas. So, I feel Austin could get some Virgin Australia routes, due to there close relationship with Delta.
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Actually, Iām pretty sure OW is still the largest in Austin.
American Airlines currently has the second largest presence in AUS (with Southwest being first and Delta in third) and its partner British Airways.
Excerpted from this article that was released today:
Quoted from Network VP Vasu Raja:
The largest hub carrier in Austin is American Airlines and weāre going to be the largest hub carrier in Austin for a long time to come. We will continue to grow and upgauge in Austin.
ā¦Just as we are large in our hubs, in many spokes Austin is one, Nashville, Boston, San Antonio you name it there are lots of cities around there we actually have a big gate holding and through parts of the day though we have a gate, we have people there to work the gate, we donāt necessarily fly on the gate. And over time we realize we do have some profit opportunities, it probably wonāt be necessarily flying daily trips from Austin to somewhere but we do envision a world where we do Saturday flights from Austin to Cancun and things like that.
ā¦When we take these gates that we have and pay rent on and airplanes that we already own, and we get to Saturday people donāt necessarily want to fly from Austin to Chicago as much but they really want to fly from Austin to Cancun in the morning and we have the ability to offer that and in the next several months and years youāll see more of that, not just in Austin but in other cities across the system.
And:
He also says they wonāt fly from cities like Austin to European cities outside of partner hubs. Itās possible they could fly from a spoke city to London Heathrow as though they do with Raleigh Durham but it wonāt be to cities like Frankfurt or Paris.
Virgin Australiaā¦ probably not.
I believe Virgin Australiaās only destination in the United States is Los Angelesā¦ no other city. Theyād most likely target more established Delta hubs like Seattle, which currently has no Australia service.
Additionally, thereās about to be a rather large influx of Texas to Australia/Oceania routes soonā¦ American Airlines and Qantas are planning on announcing more routes between the U.S. and the Oceania region as apart of their new Joint Venture. Itās very likely DFW will be included (DFW-AKL/MEL/BNE + SYD increase Iām betting).
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How much is the flight time for this route?
AMS-AUS seems to be 10hr 30min
AUS-AMS 9hr 25min
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Thatās not too long then; itās definitely a route I can fly if the KLM A330 livery is added
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Yes, but we could get some Delta routes then. Where a long ways away from Australia but Europe is closing in.
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Personally I donāt see aa expanding that much at Austin, southwest already flies to CUN, London would be overloaded with capacity, and DFW is so close. I think theyāre trying to make Delta rush into expansion
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No itās just a bigger and better airport
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But they just got Ethiopian service so
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