American has just announced the initial schedules for their two class A321s, which they’ll be taking delivery of in the coming months. Earlier in the year, American began taking delivery of their sexy A321T aircraft, which were designed to fly their premium transcontinental routes between New York and Los Angeles/San Francisco.
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Wait - if there are more first seats and less economy seats, then why is an upgrade harder?
I struggle to understand how they (airlines in general and in the US particularly) can get away with calling two hard products so far apart in terms of quality the same name! It's not even the A321T business class product branded as FIRST... it's pretty much a premium economy product!
Interesting that AA is actually putting themselves behind Delta, who has 20 F seats on 739s and has announced plans to have 20 F seats on A321s.
@ Hong Kong Airline News -- There are fewer first class seats and more economy seats.
@Bgriff Delta crams as many seats as they can at the expense of FC leg room...
To make it fair, they should make free hot meals on all flights where F gets them an executive platinum benefit, when they don't get upgraded.
I'm sorry to say this but -Get your head out of the clouds. That's about as likely to happen as Costa Rica winning the world cup!.
@ Adriano -- Yeah, they seem to be replacing them with the A321s, which makes sense.
@ Lucky - I've always wondered why do most legacy airlines refer to what's clearly a business-class product as "first"? Is that a carryover from the old days when there was no such thing as "business" class and there was only economy and first?
P.S. How can we petition BA to stop charging 3x points for AA/US "first" flights? 😉
@ Ivan Y -- Hah, if only there were a way to do the latter -- totally agree!
As far as "first class" goes, that's a great question. Think it's just a name that has been around for a long time, and they haven't felt a need to change it.
Question on the 2-class 321s. There are two versions of this aircraft - one has 2 extra rows in coach and in-seat entertainment screens in business class. The other has 2 fewer rows in coach and no in-seat entertainment in business. We booked one (in business) and they SWAPPED PLANES to the one with no in-seat entertainment after booking. It's not clear from the floorplan, but this is an obvious downgrade. Do we have any chance of resolution with AA?