I'm quite excited about American's new 777-300ER aircraft, which will feature a new first and business class product. American has announced that the 777-300ERs be entering service later this year, with the inaugural flight being from Dallas to Sao Paulo on December 13. I was hoping to get on the inaugural, though as of now…
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looks like fun, Lucky!
On a somewhat related note: have you ever explained what you do when you are out of the country (such as a trip to Brasil or Europe) with your iPhone? Do you buy a sim card, just use the phone when you are in wifi, etc? Would love to know your strategy.
unless he bought an unlocked iphone, or has jailbroken it, I would bet my money on wifi
Don't they already run this plane aa169 and 170?
Seems like its the same first class set up we had last year.
@ Michael -- Great idea for a post. I'll have one on it later this afternoon, thanks!
Yes I had looked into this myself and could not book seats. It was not even possible to book AAnytime awards on that flight (The DFW-GRU leg). A nice idea is to combine that with a flight in BA F from GRU-LHR. What better way to come home than via Europe, and GRU-LHR is the only BA route with no YQ fees so an F trip is 90k AA + about $35 in taxes. I'd go business rather than first on the new 777. The new F does not look that much different to the old, but the new J is a big step up and well worth testing out.
great lucky -- I'm about to fly to Paris and Amsterdam and usually just use the phone in wifi to send texts and facetime but it would be great in 2012 to actually be able to swap in a sim card if need be -- especially useful if you are meeting friends around the city and need to contact them quickly (I currently use the antiquated method of e-mail via wifi).
@Phil BA is now imposing fuel surchages in the flights departing from brazil (128 GBP each way).........
@ vinie -- Interestingly American isn't passing on the YQ. Any clue how BA is getting away with this?!
Yep AA is not charging the YQ. None of us have looked at the local law that bars it other than presumably BA who think they can get away with it and my guess is AA's lawyers are taking a more conservative view
Lucky, BA Avios are not popular here in Brazil, as most people are only interested either in the TAM Fidelidade or Gol Smiles programs...so i think they are not getting many complaints or legal issues....Although there was a easy way to earn a lot of avios in the last months so maybe people are going to complain more now...
Since according to multiple sources it does seem that BA is quite blatantly violating Brazilian law, I think it would make sense to look into class action against BA in Brazil. Not familiar with Brazilian specifics of the class action law but Lawyers in US would be all over salivating over such a potentially lucrative case 🙂