American Airlines (AA, Dallas/Fort Worth) will cancel its daily service between Oakland International and Dallas/Fort Worth due to the impact of the continuing grounding of the B737-8s, MarketWatch has reported.
According to the ch-aviation Commercial Aviation Operator Schedule Data module, the route will be last operated on July 6, 2019. American Airlines currently uses a B737-800 to run the flights. It is the only carrier offering direct services between Oakland and Dallas.
A spokesperson for the carrier said that passengers will have the option to rebook to flights out of San Francisco or San José, US, from Oakland via Phoenix Sky Harbor, or will be entitled to a full refund.
American Airlines has previously announced multiple cuts due to the grounding of the B737 MAX 8s but so far refrained from dropping any routes altogether. The airline has already dropped the MAX 8s from its schedule through September 3, 2019, and is cancelling some 115 flights per day on average.
The carrier has twenty-four grounded B737-8s. Its narrowbody fleet also includes 132 A319-100s, forty-eight A320-200s, 219 A321-200s, five A321-200N, 304 B737-800s, one MD-82, and twenty-seven MD-83s. American Airlines has a further seventy-six B737-8s on order from Boeing.
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