Posts Tagged “American Airlines”
The three US network airlines are the world’s largest and now referred to as mega-carriers. Between them, they operate over 2,500 aircraft. This means these three airlines account for approximately 10% of the world’s active commercial passenger aircraft. What do their orders tell us? Welcome to AirInsight Premium content. This page is only available to…
There was a previous battle in world war two. The next one will not be violent but looks to be as belligerent. The next battle will be in the skies over the Atlantic as the newcomer LCCs pour capacity into the market and upset what has become a comfortable club for network airlines. The belligerents…
American Airlines is the second in our airline fleet reviews. The airline today has a fleet based on various mergers, the most recent being US Airways (which had previously merged with America West). This followed a wave of airline consolidation that started some years ago with Delta and Northwest. The US airline consolidation that took…
[Update: Each MAX seat will have both AC power (with an international outlet) as well as USB. No news on neo fleet yet] American Airlines will not install seat-back IFE screens on its 737 MAX fleet. The first four MAXs are due later in 2017. The airline plans to offer free entertainment via Wi-Fi (powered…
In June the airline split its business between Gogo and ViaSat. We covered that story here. Back then, ViaSat was given the opportunity to work on 100 new 737 MAXs while Gogo was to install its 2Ku service on more than 130 A319s and A320s. Panasonic provides satellite Wi-Fi for the airline’s international widebody fleet….
Airlines have embraced ancillary fees as a way to make up for low fares. One of those fees was the “Reservation Cancellation/Change Fee”. Air travel is an activity that comes with many disruptive factors, as anyone can testify. The US airlines embraced a series of fees. Take a look at how popular this fee has…