Or, maybe they've seen the consistent demand for a solid lie flat business product and realized they were wasting space up front with the F cabin. So they keep the 20J seats and add PE to fill the budget gap. Not to mention, the XLR fleet won't be constrained to fly only premium transcons so they have more flexibility with the equipment to put it on other long routes. They couldn't easily do that with ~15 321Ts versus once they will have ~50 XLRs.
Given that AA has consistently misread the market, the likelihood that they have data (or more likely understand this data) is low.
The aversion to subfleets continues to baffle. JFK-LAX is not and will never be the same profile of travelers as JFK-EDI. Shoving square pegs into round holes because "the product is the network" has not worked at all.
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lrdpenn
You will certainly get a meal but seems like you cannot pre-select.
Yea - the flight is coded for meals in PE. Wonder whether pre-selecting will become an option once the PE cabin is more widespread on the route