Late last year, American became the first US carrier to announce that they'd install a "true" premium economy cabin throughout much of their longhaul flight. This is a pretty common trend in the global airline industry. As the quality of business class keeps improving, and as the personal space in economy keeps decreasing, there's a…
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Aren't we just going in circles?
The new and improved business class is what first class used to be.
The new premium economy is what business class used to be.
Both products aren't as nice as their previous counterparts but we still end up with a relatively large divide between the 3 different cabins.
If airlines offered lounge access and priority security with international premium economy, the product would be much more appealing. As carriers continue to shrink first class, I don't know why they wouldn't be able to do this.
Do you think they will be doing some flights between ORD and DFW with the 789 at first? It's been nice flying the 788 occasionally between the two cities.
In most int'l markets Y pax w/o status or any affinity CC already get one bag free. Do they mean an incremental second bag free?
Still showing 77W and 777 for these routes for travel after Nov/16 including 2017 dates.
It would be difficult for AA to eliminate economy to business upgrades unless they have Premium economy in almost all their international aircraft. Since they are still flying Reagan-era cradle seats to Europe and have plenty of USAir legacy aircraft flying transcons with no power outlets, it seems like it could be the late 2020's before they have rolled out premium economy in their international fleet.
@Josh G, as far as i know, free bags via CC are only for domestic flights, not intl ones. My AA CC didnt get me a free bag when i flew JFK-CUN-JFK
I'll bet the bank it will be a Y to PEY upgrade with swu. It'll be a way to up sell. And no, I'm not giving AA any ideas. It's already this one when using miles to upgrade on airlines that have PEY. I can't imagine AA being any different.
Free bags with CC are for domestic flights because even when they started charging for bags you still got free bags internationally, it was only domestically that they started charging.
@EJ, I'd expect them to put on some domestic routes before 11/4. They'd have to at least have 3 (but realistically 4) 789s by that date. They will want to start flying each as soon as they can. They will also need to do crew familiarizations. They may not assign it to a specific route though.
What's wrong with US airlines, always well behind their Asian counterparts? CX has PE cabins 2 years ago, maybe 3. I flew CX last April, was in F class but went cabin hopping, the PE cabin was full or almost full.
They will do the same thing they did when Cabin Extra was launched, but in this case will be free for top tier (ExPLT and PLT maybe?), then free at T24 for Gold, at least until they start selling this to the public.
Regarding the amenity kits, I'm sure it will be the same you get in J on Transcontinental 3 class service (JFK-LAX for example), just socks, an eye mask and ear plugs.
Could be nice that AA decided to offer free (complimentary) upgrades to PE to their Exc PLT customers, at least T24 or at the gate, after all the cuts benefits we got in the last few months, they need to do something positive...
Do you even read what you write Lucky? To quote you from the post:
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So even though American is launching premium economy in November, those seats won’t actually go on sale until early next year.
That’s why it’s interesting that American says that even though they’re launching premium economy in November, it won’t actually go on sale until early 2017.
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You've literally said the same thing twice just rephrased, both in the above post, just once sentence from each other. Is there a minimum word count you need to hit or something?
Do American charge for international economy check in luggage?!? That's just too cheap. Are they trying to be a budget airline now?
@Kyle, most international long haul allow 1 free checked baggage, some routes even 2.
How do you interpret this Ben 'Upgrades
Upgrades from Main Cabin to Premium Economy won't be available right away, but we'll add this functionality later. Until then, you’ll be able to upgrade to Business Class from both Main Cabin and Premium Economy.' On aa.com