<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Pakse:
1. Does this signify that in Feb 03 there may be a three class of service plane flying to HNL from ORD? (add anything you may know about STL too please).
2. If I changed my tickets to end up on a three class plane - would I end up in Business Class as my award tickets are only good for 1 class of service above Coach? Or would my seat assignment hold because they are three class flights sold as two class?</font>
1) You can check easily to determine if AA is flying a 3-class configured aircraft by going into "Check Available Seats" and putting in the flight info. If you see, starting at the front, a 2-1-2 config, followed by 2-2-2, followed by 2-3-2, then you know it is a 3-class aircraft. There is NO guarantee that AA will continue to operate 3-class aircraft to Hawaii for any length of time, as the aircraft it regularly operates are the unusual 2-class 767s.
2) AA does not provide Flagship 3-class service to Hawaii. So, the J cabin (if there is one) will be for premium Y pax, and your domestic F award tickets will land you an actual F seat. The only caution I would mention is that the international 3-class 767s have only 9 seats in F, while the Hawaii-configured ones have 30. So, the chances are not high that you'd be able to get an F award seat (PlanAAhead, that is). Depending upon how full the F section is if/when they switch aircraft to a 3-class 767, they might do a "spill over" of the F section into the J seating and make all Y pax go back to the actual Y section.
