Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2020

Lots of international routes cut: http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2020/American-Airlines-Resets-International-Network-for-Remainder-of-2020-Through-Summer-2021-OPS-DIS-07/default.aspx With the apparent even lesser need for widebodies anytime soon, what does this do to the fleet? Seems likely t...

Re: large single aisle aircraft

Hadn't the major carriers dumped their DC-8s and 707s within ten years or less of the entry of 747/DC-10/L-1011 into service? (When were the last orders for those placed?) Sure, fuel efficiency is important, and CO2 reduction (for some) but I struggle to imagine the passenger appeal of a 300-passen...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2020

Here is a question, what is aa plan for jfk lax and sfo once this is over? A321t seems like too premium of an aircraft in a bad economy. Especially on jfk sfo. 757 and 767 are out of service. Maybe aa should reconfigure those a321s Cost too much to reconfigure the 321T. Plan is to use the 777 and w...

Re: Delta plans to emerge a "smaller" carrier

But, why wouldn't air traffic return to normal after the virus outbreak is over? In Europe most governments are pouring money into their economies to keep businesses 'alive' till they can reopen again after the crises. I'm sure the US economy will also get incentivises. Because the government can't...

Re: Corona virus Bailout Bill

There is no need for the bail out. If the airline was too shortsighted in using all the profits for equity buyback to increase the share prices, they deserve to be out of business. If there is a demand or need, a new company will emerge I absolutely agree. All those years of airline profits, someth...

Re: JetBlue CEO Warns Flight Shaming Is Coming to the U.S

Don't most commercial aircraft already pollute less per passenger then most cars? Also stating the obvious here, but you can't run trains over the ocean and there aren't a whole lot of battery powered boats that can get you from Perth to New York etc. in any reasonable time frame. Exactly. People o...

Re: American Airlines Network Thread - 2020

AA will likely need to order the A220-300, A319neo, A320neo, 737 MAX 7, or similar size aircraft at some point to replace the A319 and A320 planes currently in its fleet. Which of the following is more likely for AA for an A319/A320 replacement order: A220-300, A319neo, A320neo, or 737 MAX 7? The A...

Re: AA Board of Directors/Shareholders view on Doug Parker

It's hard to blame a large company's woes on 1 person. No, It isn't. Not when that one person is Chairman and CEO of the company. Everything starts with him and filters down. Parker is ultimately responsible for everything that happens at the airline, whether he initiated it or not, which is exactl...

Re: AA Board of Directors/Shareholders view on Doug Parker

It's hard to blame a large company's woes on 1 person. There's no evidence to suggest that installing more seats was a bad idea, when DL/UA have done the same and when much of the project was put on hold due to the MAX debacle. There's also no evidence to suggest that not installing PTVs on new plan...

Re: Air Greenland selects A330-800

Lol, a single A330-800. This will boost the program for sure. The first prototype would be a nice and cheap candidate. A sale is a sale? Don't think what there is to "lol" about. The NEO program continues its steady course. First thing I learned in business is that it's better to have no ...

Re: Most Popular Long-Haul Leisure Days / Times

Thanks for your analysis. So it seems Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings are gonna be most popular, and Sunday afternoons for the return? What would route planners do if there were no slot restrictions, and the flight were long enough to "lose a day" regardless of schedule? This might...

Re: Most Popular Long-Haul Leisure Days / Times

No, I meant days of the week and times of those days. Not seasons of the year. For example, Friday vs Saturday, Saturday morning vs afternoon, etc..

Most Popular Long-Haul Leisure Days / Times

What are the most popular flight times / dates for long-haul leisure? If it takes the better part of a day to get somewhere, what days of the week do travelers prefer? Any statistics out there?

Re: Engine efficiency-what are the limits?

In recent diesel engines, there's little or no correlation between fuel efficiency and emissions. The latest Tier 4 engines emit less than Tier 3 engines, but at a noticeable increase in fuel consumption. Why? Because their Exhaust Gas Recirculation reduces NOx at the expense of increased fuel and p...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Wrong. When AA/HP merged the combined carrier had a mainline fleet of nearly 1,000 airplanes. That’s now reduced to around 940. The mainline fleet has shrunk. Jeremy When did AA/HP merge? Oh wait, you can't even get your facts straight between HP/US, and insist focus on misdirecting attention to th...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Only 4 190s have been retired. Indeed, which supports my point that the mainline fleet hasn't shrunk. Wrong. When AA/HP merged the combined carrier had a mainline fleet of nearly 1,000 airplanes. That’s now reduced to around 940. The mainline fleet has shrunk. Jeremy When did AA/HP merge? Oh wait, ...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Phoenix757767 wrote:

Only 4 190s have been retired.

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

No such thing as "LAA" anymore, only American. Plus most routes are now operated by a mix of LAA and LUS aircraft. AA Tech Ops has not integrated the fleets so LAA and LUS fleets still exist. The planes have been intergrated, but not the workforce, but some cities they are cross utilized....

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

anymaninfc wrote:

SXDFC wrote:

I am currently flying on N191AN (5FA). Does anyone know when she’s supposed to be retired?

There is no publicly announced schedule for retirement of the legacy AA B757s.

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Why would HP aircraft not be included? It’s not a fair comparison to compare pre-merger AA to their fleet now. AA’s post merger fleet overall has shrunk since AA and HP merged. Jeremy Because AA didn't merge with HP? Read my post again. I'm comparing pre-merger AA fleet to the post-merger LAA fleet...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

On the LAA side there's 467 mainline narrowbodies (491 if you include grounded 737 MAX): 32x A319 98x A321 9x A321neo 304x 737 24x 737 MAX 24x 757 In 1998, AA had 509 mainline narrowbodies: 260x MD-80 96x 757 78x 727 75x F100 The E175 does the job of the 75x MD-80, and AA has 231 of those in total....

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

On the LAA side there's 467 mainline narrowbodies (491 if you include grounded 737 MAX): 32x A319 98x A321 9x A321neo 304x 737 24x 737 MAX 24x 757 In 1998, AA had 509 mainline narrowbodies: 260x MD-80 96x 757 78x 727 75x F100 The E175 does the job of the 75x MD-80, and AA has 231 of those in total. ...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

I'd put my money on them refurbishing the 77E and ordering more 789 in the future. Fleet simplicity at all costs.

Re: Future of AA hub at PHX

PHX also isn’t the least profitable hub. I forgot which thread it was but I believe numbers were posted showing MIA and LAX as less profitable (potentially JFK as well). I believe PHX is actually 3rd on a margin basis after DFW and CLT. The single most profitable flight (again on a margin basis) in...

Re: Canada ULCC Market Potential

The problem in Canada is concentration population. You don't have too many secondary markets with population concentrated around southern British Columbia, southern Alberta, Winnipeg, and the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor (in that last one, 2 of every 3 Canadians reside)...and thus not too many seco...

Re: Would A321XLR open the door for non-stops between US west coast and CTS?

That's honestly true. I believe CTS used to have flights to HNL on Hawaiian Airlines. That might've been on an A330 though, which could've been too much capacity. No doubt it was on an A330 or at least a wide body. Until the A321XLR came around, narrow bodies had insufficient range for these routes...

Re: American Ailrines extends 737 Max flight cancellations through November 2019

By January 2020 Boeing will have at least 400 built 737's lying around, so about $50bn of stock, is continuing production sustainable? Is laying off 6000 workers and being forced to pay Federally mandated WARN penalties an option either? Imagine if you were a assembly worker who did nothing to caus...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

musman9853 wrote:

thank god the md80s are going. lets hope boeing gets off their ass and launch the nma so aa can get rid of the 767s

Re: American Airlines Network Thread - 2019

I think AA is more likely to start DFW-ATH or CLT-ATH than JFK-ATH Those two suggestions are just silly. CLT/DFW-ATH, not gonna happen. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Enlighten us - why would DFW-ATH be silly, exactly? What, so only people in the east coast or Chicago go go Greece in the summer...

Bus Industry Backs Inland Streamliner Against "Fake News"

Never easy to start a motorcoach line in the Western US, but good to know that when the local news publishes a hit piece, our industry stands with Inland Streamliner. Original hit piece: https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2019/06/05/reno-company-promises-bus-rides-vegas-phoenix-inland-streamliner-reddit...

AA Expanding DFW, LAX?

Looking at FlightConnections today, surprised at the number of missing markets from AA at DFW and LAX: https://www.flightconnections.com/route-map-american-airlines-aa. Notable gaps in their network: DFW-EUG DFW-MFR DFW-RDM DFW-LGB LAX-MRY LAX-YUM LAX-SBP LAX-BOI LAX-GEG LAX-YYC LAX-MSO LAX-BZN LAX-...

Re: Rumour: AA Making Asia Route Adjustments

IMHO any of the following are most likely: LAX-ICN LAX-TPE DFW-TPE Perhaps CZ would do CAN-ORD and CAN-DFW, and JL would do NRT-PHX, NRT-PHL, or the oft-rumored NRT-MIA. Heck, perhaps CZ would even extend their YYZ flight to PHL, CLT, or MIA. Think it's impossible? We're talking about CZ here. This ...

Re: RUMOR: American to order A321LR

flyabr wrote:

After reading all this, I can't help but wonder how well a 753Max with GTFs would have sold. Anyone know how to figure out what kind of range said aircraft might have had?

Re: Does LATAM operate PW-powered 767s?

LATAM has no plans to retire the 767 and are introducing a new interior product arguably more comfortable than their 787. In fact, they replaced their A330s with the 767. Avianca will probably retire all their A330s and American retire all their A333 and 738 (non-MAX) before LATAM gets around to ret...

Re: RUMOR: American to order A321LR

Where did you come up with 4,000nm as practical range? Here it's generally accepted that LRs have less range than 757s (the can cover about 95% of missions language) and 757s in AA/DL/UA business configs struggle with routes more than 4,000 statute miles on westbound TATL. I don't see AA doing a pr...

Re: Does LATAM operate PW-powered 767s?

dcajet wrote:

LAN Chile's 767-200s and first batch of 300s were PW-powered. GE-powered frames came later to the fleet. I believe no more PW-powered 767s remain in the fleet (LATAM Chile, Argentina, Brasil & Peru).

Does LATAM operate PW-powered 767s?

Did LAN Chile or LATAM ever operate PW-powered 767s, or did they only operate GE CF6 examples?

Re: Argentina pay US$320m damages over Aerolíneas nationalisation

Hopefully this is the end for this long case and Argentina pays up. Argentina must pay US$320 million in damages after the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (CIADI) ruled against the an appeal to earlier ruling ordering Argentina pay Spanish Grupo Marsans damages after the ...

Re: AA stock hits a 3-year low

In a way DL does play a bit of bait and switch. They put in shinny new AVOD while adding more seats to their a/c and give out better snacks. Maybe if the pax is engrossed in a library of movies they don't realize they are cramped to hell and well "I might as well fly one of those budget airlin...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

I don't believe AA would use a 772 on those routes... not yet. That's a pretty large increase in capacity. There was an article saying they would replace old 763 routes with incoming 788s once they're gone, specifically on routes like MIA-LIM and the upcoming MIA-COR. The 757 can do MIA-LIM nonstop...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

There’s a couple on PHL/CUN-DFW and DFW-ANC. I knew the 752s were usually a rare sight into DFW, but in recent days, they've shown up on flights between DFW and JFK, PHL, MIA and LAS (I might have also seen on on DFW-PHX). That's why I was wondering if the 752s are sticking around a little longer u...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

FWIW, I saw quite a few 757s flying into DFW yesterday, probably a few more than usual. I'm wondering if that's a ripple effect from the 3M8 grounding or if there's something else behind it. There’s a couple on PHL/CUN-DFW and DFW-ANC. I knew the 752s were usually a rare sight into DFW, but in rece...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Looks like with the modifications on hold AA will stay on plan to retire a/c this year even if the Max doesn't come back online until sometime post summer. So I'm assuming by the EOY the MD80s, E190s (I think they go this year) and LUS 757s will be gone. FWIW, I saw quite a few 757s flying into DFW...

Re: What Will Replace DL's 757-351?

These are very efficient planes for DL. 40 year-old technology is conjecture that implies they have outlived their useful life. They will more than likely cycle out with DL (and UA). A321s/739s have replaced domestic 763s, so as others have mentioned, more frequency. Or cycling in widebodies as the...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

flyboy80 wrote:

So, it would appear the Airspace XL bins are retrofittable to older Airbus cabins? Much nicer design than the awful pivot bins Delta chose for the A319/20 retrofits in 2015/16

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Um...yes they have. All the 738/321 with in-seat AVOD are being removed under the Oasis redo. They haven't taken any AVOD out of existing seats. The newer planes just don't have it. No, they haven’t started taking out ANY personal TVs on LAA A321s/737s. They are planning to but haven’t started the ...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

If AA Leadership actually comes to the point they want to add seatback IFE, they should all be fired. The cost to do so, after all the current renovations, will be astronomical beyond present costs. And it would represent a complete incompetence in the marketplace and utter lack of forward planning...

Re: AA Fleet Updates - 2019

Sad excuse. DL overhauled ex NW 320's delivered in early 1990's with full in-seat power, AVOD at each seat, WIFI and fully new overheads and bathrooms. You're living in the Dougie America West world my friend where everything is done on the dime. Or as you pointed out, "inexpensively." He...

Re: Why hasn´t Delta expanded since the 747´s retirement?

Some opinions on this thread are preposterous as they often are with DL threads. DL's Asia "gateway" is SEA and/or ICN, not DTW. UA didn't replace 744 with 789, but with 77W and lots of capacity shifting around in a Asia market fraught with ruinous competition.

Re: American Airlines could return to Tel Aviv (TLV)?

DFW-TLV would be an interesting add with the loads of 787s AA has.