While American Airlines' "Oasis" planes are hardly comfortable, arguably the most frustrating planes in American's fleet are their ex-US Airways A321s. American has around 220 Airbus A321s in their fleet, and over half of those are planes that American "inherited" from US Airways (the others are really nice -- some have the special A321T transcon…
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On these planes, the exit row seat in the second row of the exit row seats with no seat in front of it is the best economy seat in America. Don't @ me.
@Ben
The best economy seat in America is pretty much any Economy seat that's not on AA.
No power port? No big deal. If you need power just fly on a different airline. That's what I do even though I'm Platinum for Life with American.
Funny, Ben. When I DMed AA and asked them why my flight from PHL-DEN didn't have power, the response I got was "most of our planes have power." And when I said that was great, but the plane I was on did not have power, they told me some of the older US Airways planes are configured in a way that doesn't allow for power. Huh? Sounds like a blogger gets an honest, albeit disappointing answer, while a customer just gets lied to.
Flew to Hawaii on one of these last week. Not only was there no screens or USB power plug-ins, but the Wifi and free entertainment on the app were down as well. Not a great experience for a 6 hour flight.
I’d take a Legacy US A321 seat any day over an Oasis seat, even without power and IFE.
This is so #$%#$%#@$% messed up. How many years have they had these planes now? And yet another two years for them to get their act together?? Most of my travel these days has taken me through Charlotte from LA so I end up always stuck on none of their crapwagons. Sorry not sorry but another two years is really just absurd.
/rant
More things to go wrong at 40,000 ft. What is the worst thing for an aircraft in flight...? Smoke in the cabin or even worse fire! Enough already!
Donna, why, the LUS A321 seat is rock hard and has no headrest or legroom? In what way is the oasis seat worse? In my opinion it is the worst seat in their fleet (except maybe the 757).
Now the LAA version version on the other hand, I just flew it round trip transcon MIA-SEA, one way in exit row 11 and the other way in F. I certainly hope someone decides to keep those planes as they are before AA ruins them. Love that plane and it will be a shame when they get oasised.
Let me guess, these new installs won't even have USB-C, so by May 2022, these planes will still be incredibly out of date. (especially when Apple finally goes all usb-c with their devices)
I actually prefer the coach seats on the legacy US A321's. I think they're more comfortable. My tablet can easily stream for 5 or 6 hours without power. Doesn't bother me.
I actually prefer the coach seats on the legacy US A321's to the legacy AA seats or the Oasis. I think they're more comfortable. My tablet can stream for 5 to 6 hours so I'm fine. I also enjoy reading. First world problems.
@HiAperture +1 The LAA A321 (non-Oasis) is awesome....leave it to Duggy to ruin 'em.
I am currently sitting in business class on my 2nd flight of the day on one these #$@%boxes. Absolutely terrible plane, which complements the food quality and surly service nicely
Didn't realize I was on one of these, short connection between flights, also end of day, about 5:30 pm. In first class, paid first, not upgraded. No power, no video screens and my equipment is just about out of power, as it's end of day. Never again, American!
How tio survive to a 6 hours fly without power ports: arrive at airport , buy a book, turn off the cellphone and socials, read the book you have just bought. So 90s but your brain will thank you!