American Airlines has been making a lot of small improvements lately, which add up. For a long time, many of us have been saying that American’s buy on board food selection in economy is just terrible. Not only has the selection been super limited, but it has only been available on flights of over 1,300…
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As an EXP happy to see this. But I note that I believe AA has JFK-MIA clocked at 1090 miles! Lol
"Pimento cheese is to American as elderflower is to Lufthansa — enough already!" Should read: "Avacado toast is to OMAAT readers as elderflower is to Lufthansa - enough already!" 🙂
This is good news. Sadly, American seems to always be out of all food by the time they’re 4-5 rows into serving economy. Hopefully they load MORE items, not just more options!
Sense of humor appreciated!! I wouldn't be an avid reader of your blog if I didn't enjoy it! 🙂
I hope FAs record all the EP and Key comps. When they just give away the item, the data just shows that it didn’t sell or it went to waste ( fresh items). That leads to less provisioning or the elimination of the product .
Also, tequila will be available in very limited quantities (2 per insert).
Cue the critics.
"American isn't paying down its debt fast enough."
"American still has bad food." (News flash: ALL airlines have bad food, IMHO)
American still doesn't have TV sets at every seat." (Neither do Alaska or Southwest)
"American's TVs are too small."
etc. etc. etc.
Question: What's more important when it comes to air travel - getting where one is going safely ... or ... TVs, lounges, and food?
Based on the volume of comments on airline blogs, it's the latter.
Great (although small) improvement. They are starting add up and get me excited watching AA start to wake up to compete and shake off Airways culture after nearly 15 years ... eek!
My 2 suggestions in hopes of willing it into existence:
1.) Bring back the (mostly ORD) 'exception markets' for F meal service (DFW, BOS, NYC, DCA, RDU, DEN) ... would be a huge marketing coup in their knife-fight with UA for ORD. Advert the hell out of: we have the only meal service to the business centers on the east coast, would ring true to a lot of UA flyers after UA dumped their 800 mile meal ring.
2. Pause the killing off of the transcon F birds, put some lipstick on the service, and beat up DL and UL for not offering a F transcon incessiently. It's still a great product.
I think safe transportation is assumed. Everything else (schedule, hard product, soft product) is a consideration, although what matters to you may differ than what matters to others. Up until recently, AA only thought what mattered was their network (read: connections through Dallas) served from El Paso.
Definitely by design. Look at the routes out of CLT, other than intl and transcon, I doubt anything else is >1100.
Finally someone offering delicious air dried biltong instead of gross, dehydrated jerky.
These all sound awful.
'American food' seems to oxymoronic at best as these seem to be a mix of building materials and industrial solvents.
I only consume biltong that has been FILTERED air dried !
As weird and it sounds, 'biltong' still sounds better than jerky although it's all offensive to me !
Well done American !....
At that speed, and it goes for most other "improvements", they may become competitive with Delta by the year 2050. The only meaningful action would be retrofitting all those seat backs with screens. For any flight beyond 2 hours, this is the absolutely determining factor which sends me to Delta and Jetblue without a second thought. Not that I can't access entertainment on my own device... It is simply too cumbersome, especially in Coach.
Truly. And some form of cheese pervading everything, making it worse than it ought to be.
Literally every new option is beef. I guess DFW really is the only market they care about...