Well this is interesting. American's "flagship" aircraft is the Boeing 777-300ER. American only has 20 of these planes in their fleet, and as of now they fly them on select routes to Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, London, and Sao Paulo. These are by far American's most premium configured aircraft, as they each feature eight first…
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Are they pulling it off another route, like Buenos Aires? The economy there is doing pretty badly lately, so I could see premium demand shrinking.
American does not fly the 777-300ER to Sydney. They did when they launched LAX-SYD but have since changed the equipment on the route to the 787-9.
Thanks for the tip!
When is the peak season for Buenos Aires ? Do we know the dates that the 77W will return to the route?
I was thinking of spending next thanksgiving there.
Shame, I much prefer the 787-9 for both comfort(arrive more fresh) and their reliability compared to AA 77Ws which have left me stranded and delayed multiple times.
On the one hand, JL flights to HND are often packed -- at least up front -- because it's soooo much more convenient than NRT. On the other hand, if given the option of flying JL to NRT or AA to HND I'm not sure which... actually, no. I'd absolute fly any flight on JL over AA. I honestly don't understand what JL gets out of the jv, so maybe someone can explain that to me.
You should also mention this plane is coming from Miami. It will fly GRU-MIA-LAX-HND and back.
@andy Just a guess, but JAL get's to offer a massive intra-american route network for their passengers? Just a small benefit of the JV...
Only non revs would take this flight anyways. Too much competition for AA on this route and they're not exactly competitive.
Is it because Delta is going to deploy the a339 (A330neo) on this route and aa needs to stay competitive?
@Dan - AA already has an industry leading J class cabin to/from NRT and HND on their 772's and 787s, so has nothing to do with crappy DL!
Industry leading? What industry are we talking about?
Even if we're only talking bottom of the barrel American 3, they're still the worst option IMO
Just paining to see how Mr DP is turning American into American West aka US. On the other hand, DL and UA will be very happy to see the premium traffic coming their way. Just wondering how long JV partners like JL and BA are going to accept the decline. I think this may well have been a push by JL... I do admit that the AA 77W has a very good premium hard product and BA itself is need to upgrade theirs, but still.
I admit this comment includes a reaction to the MAX flying to BSB and VVI.
@EthFlyer 3 yrs ago when American still had the 777-200s with the old flagship first suites on the LAX NRT route I would agree only non revs would fly first. Hard to think anyone would have paid full fare first class on such an old plane in 2016. That was also before American flew to Haneda The 77W is much nicer. Different times. There’s potential here.