Economy Class & Beyond

AA: Massive Narrow Body renewal: Airbus and Boeing share the spoils….

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It seems American Airlines is in the mood to upgrade parts of it fleet, with the announcement today that has agreed with Boeing and Airbus to renew it's fleets. Under the new agreements, American will acquire 460 narrowbody aircraft from the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 families beginning in 2013 in what American calls "the largest aircraft order in aviation history." Don't think … [Read more...]

AA: Introduces Premium GhettoIFE – or Samsung Galaxy Tablets…

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It seems GhettoIFE is now all the rage, with American Airlines deploying tablets to First and Business Class passengers on certain routes.American will be using Samsung Galaxy's (bucking a trend with everyone using Apple iPad's), and rolling out 6000 of these devices on certain routes operated with Boeing 757 and Boeing 767 equipmentThe first batch of routes have been … [Read more...]

AA: Buys new 777’s, opts for the 300ER’s….

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It seems American Airlines has decided maybe it's time to invest in expanding it's international growth, and has ordered two Boeing 777-300ER's from the options it has with Boeing.Subject to contracts being firmed up and local issues, these aircraft are due for delivery in latter part of 2012.This makes AA a rarity in the USA - the first carrier to use 777-300ER's (Air Canada … [Read more...]

AA: Expands Manchester Services, Year-Round services to JFK

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AA is boosting it's regional credentials, by taking one of it's services year-round from Manchester UK to New York-JFK.After beating BMI with the Manchester Chicago services, and taking a minor beating from Delta with it's MAN-JFK, American Airlines is back again, to relaunch Manchester - New York JFK, and is expected to remain a year-round service.Route commences 6th April … [Read more...]

AA: We don’t want to give an AAdvantage to Orbitz…

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This is a big one in the airline vs ticket vs distribution race, and if you're booking AA flights, from December the 1st, don't head to Orbitz.According to ATWOnline, American Airlines will be terminating the right for Orbitz (and Orbitz allfiated companies) to ticket their flights, citing Orbitz of course is annoyed, citing this as a “broad attack on the distribution … [Read more...]

America-Japan Anti-Trust immunity firming up for Star and OneWorld…

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News arrives indicting that Department of Transport in the USA are close to giving the green light for OneWorld and Star Alliance carriers, connecting Japan and the USA. Of course, something has to hold up this agreement, and that is the approval of an Open Skies agreement being signed, with the first part of it being the Tokyo Haneda slots being awarded. In this case, the … [Read more...]

BA/AA/IB – New Joint Venture Routes announced.

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Hot off the heels of the joint venture annouced, it seems the group is going to quickly consolidate their postion with a bunch of new flights, of which they areNew York JFK-Budapest operated by American AirlinesChicago-Helsinki  operated by American Airlines London Heathrow-San Diego operated by British Airways Madrid-Los Angeles operated by Iberia In … [Read more...]

BA/AA: Joint Venture Confirmed – Virgin on it’s tod.

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News today has been released that say that the Joint Venture between British Airways and American Airlines has been given full approval, and has been signed off at a value of  £.4.4 Billion a year.The terms of the Joint Venture allow the airlines to share costs and revenue on passengers from the European Union Area, Norway and Switzerland to the United States of … [Read more...]

AA: They’re trusting grown ups to be AAdults – Complimentry drinks on US Domestic lounges

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It seems that another airline in the USA has finally got a clue and is giving up drink tokens - or the silly "buy a drink" routine. Step forward American Airlines.Visitors to Admirals Club lounges inside the USA will be able to have free alcoholic drinks just like they do when you travel internationally. This goes forward from 1st October. Of course, this is not all alcoholic … [Read more...]

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