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AA Debuts Premium Economy Seating
Ryan Boyd October 10, 2016
Along with American Airlines’ debut of the 787-900 Dreamliner into regular service, the carrier has also introduced a premium economy class for passengers, making it the first U.S.-based airline to offer the class for domestic flights. Details on premium economy class seats will be sold and upgraded remains vague at present, but American Airlines currently sells the cabin as economy class.
The airline currently plans to deploy the 787-900 Dreamliner on a domestic-only basis for the next few months before branching it out to international routes.
To read more on this story, go to Skift.
[Photo: American Airlines]
The story was rewritten incorrectly. You said: "making it the first U.S.-based airline to offer the class for domestic flights", while the Skift story does not qualify it as for domestic flights. It says American Airlines is will be the first to offer "true" Premium Economy on ANY flights for a domestic carrier. It was domestic carriers, not domestic flights, that Skift was talking about. But they are debuting the seats before they sell them as a separate class. What the story doesn't mention, but the AA forum on FlyerTalk was long discussed, is that AA only planes for these seats to be on two-aisle planes, and thus mostly international (though there will be occasions were these two-aisle planes will fly a domestic route either as a connection or just to use the plane during hours when it would otherwise be unused for international flights.