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American bids 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… (news.aa.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
A333 and B757.. marvelous aircraft.. sad endin.
Those earlier model 333s were not very capable when compared to similar era 772ers and the onboard product offered never really stacked up to the competition. In general I agree the A333 is great but they never lived up to their potential with US or later AA.
I'll miss the cup holders in the A333 that were large enough to hold an entire bottle of wine, but will not miss the dated configuration of the 752s or the angle flat seats on the 763 s
Awesome alliteration
this article or a similar one was posted yestereday..in any case...retiring the smaller aircraft indicates cutting back on routes to smaller communities or airports..the larger aircraft in some cases are being used as frieghters..in any case,in some ways we are going backward in time to fewer routes,less air traffic and fewer options for flights..
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