American Airlines

[LS@MAN]

Good, those clapped out Boeing’s are awful!

 

[Jerry]

Good, those clapped out Boeing’s are awful!

Many of their Airbus aircraft aren't exactly young either I believe.

 

[gonetech]

Personally I can't stand dreamliner windows as I enjoy photography. Flew a clapped out B763 recently and all was good! A330 aren't great with the crappy IFE boxes taking up valuable foot space. Each to their own I guess

 

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of Airlineroutes

Philadelphia – Manchester 787-8 replaced by following
28MAR20 – 06APR20 767-300ER
07APR20 – 06MAY20 A330-200
07MAY20 – 24OCT20 767-300ER

 

[Ginga]

I read an article this morning that states that all of American Airlines 767 fleet will be withdrawn from service by May '20 and the 757 fleet will be phased withdrawn by mid 2021. This was brought about by the spread of the headline maker.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Philadelphia cancelled for the summer. 1 daily 787-8 to resume on 24OCT20

 

[BlueManc]

A fond farewell to five fantastic fleets

Last month, American Airlines announced plans to accelerate the retirement of some older, less fuel-efficient aircraft from its fleet sooner than originally planned. As flying schedules and aircraft needs are fine-tuned during this period of record low demand, American will take the unique step of retiring a total of five aircraft types.

American has officially retired the Embraer E190 and Boeing 767 fleets, which were originally scheduled to retire by the end of 2020. The airline has also accelerated the retirement of its Boeing 757s and Airbus A330-300s. Additionally, American is retiring 19 Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft operated by PSA Airlines.

 

[David_itl]

American not resuming until next summer http://news.aa.com/news/news-detail...0-Through-Summer-2021-OPS-DIS-07/default.aspx

 

[David_itl]

And they've gone

https://twitter.com/x/status/1340112179710857216

 

[IanFarquharson]

No real surprise about American and the other US carriers quitting the UK Regions, it was always going to happen.
Scotland being the exception as lots of inbound US tourists.
But as always Manchester has another airline coming in, this time Aer Lingus UK so they can only benefit from this and will probably consider a PHL service.
Both airlines are IAG and they know the demand to PHL was there.
Plus MAN have Virgin growing their base.
So for a UK Regional still in a very good place for US services.

 

[Jerry]

Maybe they are making way for Aer lingus?

 

[laviation]

Crossposting from the EDI thread.

Important to note that the source is usually very reliable for AA stuff, and it was later confirmed as a real route announcement at some point in the near future.

New long haul routes it is said in another tweet.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1690046527773757441

 

[laviation]

Announcement should be by Thursday if posts on another forum are to be believed.

 

[laviation]

Unfortunately no American in 2024. Did feel that this would be a 2025 resumption given A321XLR delays.
Alongside that, looks like no new Aer Lingus TATL routes in 2024 either !

I'll be using Virgin for my next outing to the U.S. !!

 

[gulftraveller]

The destinations AA have chosen show they are still focused on outbound tourism. Very little development of business routes or ordinary point to point traffic from the US airlines.

 

[Seasider]

Surely, their focus will be on where they can make money.