OT - Bolivia Flight Change (AA)
Slow day so figured I would provide some help to those banished to Bolivia. If you are among those, American Airlines is now making it harder to get out of Bolivia if you are in La Paz
https://thepointsguy.com/2018/02/aa-ending-intra-bolivian-flights/
February 27th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
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February 27th, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
MGoBlog Airlines will easily pick up the slack.
February 27th, 2018 at 5:39 PM ^
So.....we priced out some commercial airliners on the used market, and we settled on a bus.
I mean, it doesn't have the range of the plane, but we figured that we could get some fast cash from a share of the "scenic tour" market.
February 27th, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
...if the MGoCreditCard grants triple points redeemable for 1st class travel to Bolivia. And are October 21st and/or November 25 this year blacked due to anticipated demand?
February 27th, 2018 at 9:36 PM ^
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February 27th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
Seems like Two Mile High Stadium would offer some kind of home field advantage.
February 28th, 2018 at 12:51 AM ^
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not with that attitude
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This is about as on topic as you can get nowadays. Proudly remove the OT label!
February 27th, 2018 at 6:14 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 6:35 PM ^
Took off in Detroit, picked up passengers in Toledo and Lexington, KY before switching planes in Atlanta. It was like Greyhound, but faster.
February 27th, 2018 at 8:06 PM ^
February 27th, 2018 at 10:12 PM ^
You've obviously never (rarely) flown Southwest. Their route map is littered with this. :)
There's actually a word for this in airline parlance: direct. A direct flight is a flight which keeps the same filght number from origin to destination. All nonstop flights are direct, but not all direct flights are nonstop. For example, United Airlines runs a Hawaii-Guam service with ~5 intermediate stops (depending upon the day of the week); Alaska Airlines runs direct service from Seattle to Anchorage with 3 or 4 stops as well.
You can have a direct flight with a change of plane, which is extremely confusing; you can actually miss a connecting flight that you didn't know that you had.
Triangle routes like AA's are fairly rare; United is running a few domestically, and a few carriers run them internationally. More common are flights like most of Singapore Airlines' US flights -- Houston - Manchester (UK) - Singapore, New York - Frankfurt - Singapore, Los Angeles - Tokyo/Seoul - Singapore, and San Francisco - Hong Kong - Singapore. The flight stops in both cities in both directions, and in most cases the carrier obtains fifth-freedom rights, allowing them to offer service beween the two foreign destinations. (e.g., you can buy a ticket from New York to Frankfurt on Singapore Airlines). AA would have needed so-called eighth-freedom rights to sell seats on the domestic sector by itself.
February 27th, 2018 at 7:31 PM ^
I was worried that my manscaping post had gotten me sent to Bolivia when I saw this. Thankfully, I'm still here. My Spanish sucks.
February 27th, 2018 at 7:51 PM ^
Only South American country which hasn't. Even Suriname and Guyana have won medals.
February 27th, 2018 at 8:00 PM ^
I'm headed to Bolivia in October for a week (flying into La Paz and driving, so not affected by this change). I'll take lots of pics and make a diary post.
February 27th, 2018 at 9:36 PM ^
Given that La Paz is the functional administrative capital of the country. But there's this:
"Santa Cruz de la Sierra is Bolivia's most populous, produces nearly 35% of Bolivia's gross domestic product, and receives over 40% of all foreign direct investment in the country. This has helped make Santa Cruz the most important business center in Bolivia and the preferred destination of migrants from all over the country."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_la_Sierra
This is a straight business decision: it's not profitable enough for AA to include La Paz.
February 28th, 2018 at 10:00 AM ^
This is going to be a LOOOOOONG OT season....