Originally Posted by
JDiver
He could easily have eliminated MCE on the AA side last year, and specified new aircraft be delivered without it. I find it somewhat intriguing he did not (though his team has other changes without hesitating).
We'll just have to see what comes with fleet integration.
For some reason I thought they have gone on record stating that the AA interior standard will be the surviving standard (down to the seat, AVOD, in-seat powers, etc) going forward and the first thing they are doing is adding ISP to the A319s.
I just hope that when they start modifying the PMUS planes, they will be more consistent in how they proceed with the upgrades. Either work on 1 project at time or do it all in the same mod. UA made the mistake of doing too many different things at different times concurrently (Plane goes in for Wifi, then at a different time gets E+, then another trip gets DTVs, another trip gets slimline, another trip gets that whatever) and it created a wildly inconsistent product across the fleet, which IMO is much worse than having nothing.
I hope they are working on determining a product standard (ISP, IFE, type of seat, aircraft seating configuration, Wifi product, interior refresh if necessary, etc) then do them all for each plane in one sitting through a single "interior and inflight product standardization" project.
Learn from UA's mistakes.