Originally Posted by
DLmedalliongold
I heard a rumor from someone who has an administrative job at AA that the A321T fleet will be going away, and these will only be domestic first class going forward. I 100% cannot believe that, but this person insisted that indeed that was the case and that the A321T fleet loses money every flight. Anyone else heard anything like this? I can't imagine AA would yield this premium transcon market to Delta, JetBlue and United?!?
Would not surprise me if they dropped F, doubt they will run recliner domestic F though they might as well just drop the route at that point or go all Y. With B6 running the new Mint on the LAX-JFK route (which you can earn AA miles on), and even the older Mint offering 4 "suites" the only differentiator AA has is the lounge and frankly on LAX-JFK I'd take the new Mint seats over AA F, and double that for AA J.
I recall before AA saying how much $ these flights made, so if they're losing now its because they let the product go. Really reminds me of UA PS, when it launched PS F was really good and was differentiated from PS J by more than a soup. But slowly over time it degraded and eventually also became meh. End of the day no US airline seems capable or willing to offer a proper 3 class F, its just taking AA longer than UA/DL to come to that realization.