“Shifting demand in the travel market” has caused American Airlines to cut several flights from four major US cities beginning in May.
The question from Nicaragua is “What are the chances that they will actually be flying into the Augusto C. Sandino International Airport in Managua, Nicaragua after May 2022?”
Their latest changes posted on the flights analytics website Cirium show that “All of American Airlines flights to Managua, Nicaragua will remain “suspended through May 2022”, as in “At least until the start of June”.
Two Nicaraguan news sources had recently announced that American Airlines will resume its flights to Nicaragua on May 5th, 2022. Previously it was January 2022.
Both United Airlines and Spirit Airlines also continue to blank Nicaragua.
Cancelled Routes
In general, American Airlines plan on reducing departures by almost 20% starting this in May. The casualties include flights from Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, and Raleigh with Dallas feeling most of the pain.
Which Locations are they favoring?
It’s always interesting to see which routes these airlines have added to their itineraries or increased frequency as a result of this “shifting demand in the travel market” (some of which has been brought about by changes to travel restrictions).
As part of the schedule changes that will take effect on May 1st 2022, American will double the daily flights to Buenos Aires, Argentina from one to two and also increase the number of daily flights to Guayaquil, Ecuador and Liberia, Costa Rica to three each.
They will also be adding a third daily flight to Guanajuato and increasing the size of its aircraft servicing Cancun and Morelia.
Helping feed passengers into Miami (and therefore a connection to Managua with Avianca) will be two flights from John. F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
Down is also up with American as the dropped flights represent a 17.5 percent reduction in seats, however, the actual schedule is a 10 percent increase compared to what was flying in May of 2021.
