<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:I do feel though that they need to put a bigger aircraft on the route if they want to compete.[/quote]

If they can't fill a 763, why a bigger aircraft? a 777?

We have had this discussion before about a single aisle(757) aircraft on transatlantic services.(as indeed the Concorde was!!!!) Manchester - Boston is not much further than East to West coast USA and the 757 is the workhorse on many of these routes.

The Man-Bos AA 757 service is heavily loaded and I always select that if available; even if it is slightly more expensive than the daily Manchester - Chicago service on a 763(767). The trip to Boston is usually 6.5 hours out and 6 hours back.

I think that the problem with Miami is that it doesn't have good links to the rest of the USA(excluding Florida and Carribean)whereas Boston and Chicago are far better and arriving at lunchtime makes it easy for onward travel.

Be interesting to see if the seasonal Glasgow - Chicago(763) and Boston - Dublin(757) flights survive.

With airlines under financial pressure we can expect to have more transatlantic services on, lower cost to operate 757s, where they have the range and the loading doesn't justify a larger aircraft.