Oct 11, 2017, 11:39 am
Last edit by: isaacchambers
All Airbus operations have now ended with Alaska Airlines.
This Wiki will be updated periodically with status of former frames with new owners or sadly scrapped.
Summary of Reconfiguration Project: (see below for specific breakdown by aircraft tail number)
This Wiki will be updated periodically with status of former frames with new owners or sadly scrapped.
Summary of Reconfiguration Project: (see below for specific breakdown by aircraft tail number)
- 319 - None were reconfigured due to pandemic and subsequent fleet withdrawal. All were scrapped / transferred as of June 17, 2022.
- 320 - All but 7 aircraft were reconfigured. [F8W12Y126 -> F12W24Y114], all were withdrawn from the fleet as of January 10, 2023.
- 321neo - All were reconfigured (7 total, 3 delivered in the new interior from Airbus, completed as of January 3, 2020). [F8W18Y159 -> F16W24Y150], all were withdrawn from the fleet as of September 30 2023,.
- All aircraft were repainted into AS livery being complete on June 2, 2019.
Legend:
Bold indicates aircraft has been reconfigured
Airbus A319 - ALL TRANSFERRED/SCRAPPED
N521VA 521 (let there be flight) [MZJ 09/18/21 - scrapped]
N522VA 522 (the 1-year old virgin) [MZJ 10/28/21 - scrapped, you can purchase planetags of this aircraft]
N523VA 523 (contents may be under pressure) [MZJ 03/08/2022 - scrapped]
N524VA 524 (dark horse) [MCI 6/9/2022 - scrapped]
N525VA 525 (virgin & tonic) [P08 - 3/17/2022 - scrapped]
N526VA 526 (jane) [P08 - 12/13/2022 - scrapped]
N527VA 527 (tubular belle) [P08 - 06/27/2023 - scrapped]]
N528VA 528 (fog cutter) [ transferred to Braathens Interantional Airways SE-RGC]
N529VA 529 (moodlights, camera, action) [P08 - 10/21/2022 - scrapped]
N530VA 530 (gogo dancer) [MCI 6/17/2022 - scrapped]
Airbus A320 - [12 - 320s stored/awaiting to be transferred to other operators]
N361VA 361 (jersey girl) [stored GSO - 1/11/2023]
N362VA 362 (spotifly) [stored OAK 7/29, sold to ALC Feb 2021, ferried to PAE 04/29/22, transferred to Allegiant]
N363VA 363 (sky surfer) [stored OAK 8/6, sold to ALC Feb 2021, transferred to Allegiant]
N364VA 364 (lady boss) [stored GSO 4/28/2022, transferred to Allegiant]
N365VA 365 (airbnb force one) [stored GSO 3/21, sold to ALC Feb 2021, transferred to Allegiant]
N621VA 621 (air colbert) [returned to lessor GSO 11/20 - to Volotea Airlines as EC-NNZ 1/21]
N622VA 622 (california dreaming)[stored GSO 7/8 - Lease return to VCV 3/8/21 - to Allegiant 3/23/21]
Bold indicates aircraft has been reconfigured
Airbus A319 - ALL TRANSFERRED/SCRAPPED
Airbus A320 - [12 - 320s stored/awaiting to be transferred to other operators]
N629VA 629 (midnight ride) [stored AMA, 12/27/2023]
Airbus A320 ETOPS - All Transferred to Allegiant
Airbus A321NEO - All Transferred to American Airlines
Airbus A319/20/21N Reconfiguration/Retirements Tracking Thread
Aug 22, 2019, 1:03 pm
#631
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SFO, mostly
Posts: 2,204
RE: preference on seats, this is one of the few things I disagree with you on, James. Now that AS is again budgeting for F seat maintenance on the airbus fleet, I haven't had a dirty or malfunctioning seat in two months. Being 6', I appreciate the long leg rest, deep recline, and room enough to get out of the window seat without disturbing one's neighbor. I will never be able to use the flip down foot rest on the retrofitted airbus seats--anyone over 5'8" would be scrunched up. Lastly, I enjoy the in-seat back massager and adjustable lumbar support on the white leather seats. Many people don't realize they can completely adjust the position of the lumbar support with the buttons found inside the arm rest. Those adjustments make the seat comfortable for people of all sizes.
Aug 22, 2019, 7:17 pm
#633
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 116
So, at Village Pub at LAS, they have model aircraft of some of the airlines that fly to and from LAS. They still have a Virgin America model, ironically right next to an Alaska 737 model. Thought that was cool. Anyways, here she is, N635VA! My first time on a reconfiguration! Seat is 25A though, so no First Class footrest...
Aug 27, 2019, 1:57 pm
#636
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SEA
Programs: AS 100K, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 876
Finally got to try out one of the 16F A321neos....man that is a lovely experience in F. I really like the new seats, especially the footrest. Slightly quieter ride than the 900s, but the biggest thing is it overall felt roomier. I'm 6'4 and still had extra headroom. I sure hope Alaska keeps them in the long run.
Aug 30, 2019, 2:21 am
#637
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 116
Just now getting to this, but on my ex VX first flight, they refused to allow anyone’s bag by their feet. That’s strange.
Aug 31, 2019, 10:31 pm
#638
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Southern California/Los Angeles
Programs: Various
Posts: 2,778
A320 - Wow, Do they care ? (PMVA version)
What the heck ! I have no sympathy for how bad things have gotten with letting the Air Bus fleet go to crap, if it’s still in PMVA interior.
I had a recent flight that involved one of these, and one seat in the F cabin was in-op, and tagged as so. It happened to be my assigned seat and not discovered until I boarded. Kinda sucked, but lucked out in that another F seat was available. The THREE GAs and Station Mgr all working the flight had no idea the seat was in-op. Surprise surprise, none of the seats had power and FA had to manually move seats for the F passengers. Luckily the flight was only LAX-SFO. Flight was 2 hrs late. Got a “we’re sorry” email (nothing else) that evening. Not done yet.
Next flight, SFO-PDX, OH BOY, SAME PLANE. These GAs don’t know that there’s a broken F seat, but luckily I had been booked in a different F Seat. Same broken seats needing adjustment, same awesome FA that bit the bullet and made his good spirts deflect the stupid carelessness that’s going on with these planes. This flight was 2.5 hours late arriving at 1:30AM to PDX. Received another “sorry” 1 sentence email a few hours later.
What gives ? I’m doing my best to avoid any Airbus that’s not 321 (good luck figuring it out sometimes) with this airline. . Between neglect, lack of upgrades (only 8 seats) and poor reliability of these AB, What a major demerit to Alaska for not addressing this, and for lack of service recovery beyond that. They need to turn up the heat and get the reconfigurations DONE, so they can begin to have standards that are standard and not all over the page.
Cue the cheerleaders and naysayers....
I had a recent flight that involved one of these, and one seat in the F cabin was in-op, and tagged as so. It happened to be my assigned seat and not discovered until I boarded. Kinda sucked, but lucked out in that another F seat was available. The THREE GAs and Station Mgr all working the flight had no idea the seat was in-op. Surprise surprise, none of the seats had power and FA had to manually move seats for the F passengers. Luckily the flight was only LAX-SFO. Flight was 2 hrs late. Got a “we’re sorry” email (nothing else) that evening. Not done yet.
Next flight, SFO-PDX, OH BOY, SAME PLANE. These GAs don’t know that there’s a broken F seat, but luckily I had been booked in a different F Seat. Same broken seats needing adjustment, same awesome FA that bit the bullet and made his good spirts deflect the stupid carelessness that’s going on with these planes. This flight was 2.5 hours late arriving at 1:30AM to PDX. Received another “sorry” 1 sentence email a few hours later.
What gives ? I’m doing my best to avoid any Airbus that’s not 321 (good luck figuring it out sometimes) with this airline. . Between neglect, lack of upgrades (only 8 seats) and poor reliability of these AB, What a major demerit to Alaska for not addressing this, and for lack of service recovery beyond that. They need to turn up the heat and get the reconfigurations DONE, so they can begin to have standards that are standard and not all over the page.
Cue the cheerleaders and naysayers....
Aug 31, 2019, 11:12 pm
#639
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: PDX
Programs: AS MVP Gold 100K
Posts: 2,329
What the heck ! I have no sympathy for how bad things have gotten with letting the Air Bus fleet go to crap, if it’s still in PMVA interior.
I had a recent flight that involved one of these, and one seat in the F cabin was in-op, and tagged as so. It happened to be my assigned seat and not discovered until I boarded. Kinda sucked, but lucked out in that another F seat was available. The THREE GAs and Station Mgr all working the flight had no idea the seat was in-op. Surprise surprise, none of the seats had power and FA had to manually move seats for the F passengers. Luckily the flight was only LAX-SFO. Flight was 2 hrs late. Got a “we’re sorry” email (nothing else) that evening. Not done yet.
Next flight, SFO-PDX, OH BOY, SAME PLANE. These GAs don’t know that there’s a broken F seat, but luckily I had been booked in a different F Seat. Same broken seats needing adjustment, same awesome FA that bit the bullet and made his good spirts deflect the stupid carelessness that’s going on with these planes. This flight was 2.5 hours late arriving at 1:30AM to PDX. Received another “sorry” 1 sentence email a few hours later.
What gives ? I’m doing my best to avoid any Airbus that’s not 321 (good luck figuring it out sometimes) with this airline. . Between neglect, lack of upgrades (only 8 seats) and poor reliability of these AB, What a major demerit to Alaska for not addressing this, and for lack of service recovery beyond that. They need to turn up the heat and get the reconfigurations DONE, so they can begin to have standards that are standard and not all over the page.
Cue the cheerleaders and naysayers....
I had a recent flight that involved one of these, and one seat in the F cabin was in-op, and tagged as so. It happened to be my assigned seat and not discovered until I boarded. Kinda sucked, but lucked out in that another F seat was available. The THREE GAs and Station Mgr all working the flight had no idea the seat was in-op. Surprise surprise, none of the seats had power and FA had to manually move seats for the F passengers. Luckily the flight was only LAX-SFO. Flight was 2 hrs late. Got a “we’re sorry” email (nothing else) that evening. Not done yet.
Next flight, SFO-PDX, OH BOY, SAME PLANE. These GAs don’t know that there’s a broken F seat, but luckily I had been booked in a different F Seat. Same broken seats needing adjustment, same awesome FA that bit the bullet and made his good spirts deflect the stupid carelessness that’s going on with these planes. This flight was 2.5 hours late arriving at 1:30AM to PDX. Received another “sorry” 1 sentence email a few hours later.
What gives ? I’m doing my best to avoid any Airbus that’s not 321 (good luck figuring it out sometimes) with this airline. . Between neglect, lack of upgrades (only 8 seats) and poor reliability of these AB, What a major demerit to Alaska for not addressing this, and for lack of service recovery beyond that. They need to turn up the heat and get the reconfigurations DONE, so they can begin to have standards that are standard and not all over the page.
Cue the cheerleaders and naysayers....
Sep 1, 2019, 11:05 pm
#640
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 116
What the heck ! I have no sympathy for how bad things have gotten with letting the Air Bus fleet go to crap, if it’s still in PMVA interior.
I had a recent flight that involved one of these, and one seat in the F cabin was in-op, and tagged as so. It happened to be my assigned seat and not discovered until I boarded. Kinda sucked, but lucked out in that another F seat was available. The THREE GAs and Station Mgr all working the flight had no idea the seat was in-op. Surprise surprise, none of the seats had power and FA had to manually move seats for the F passengers. Luckily the flight was only LAX-SFO. Flight was 2 hrs late. Got a “we’re sorry” email (nothing else) that evening. Not done yet.
Next flight, SFO-PDX, OH BOY, SAME PLANE. These GAs don’t know that there’s a broken F seat, but luckily I had been booked in a different F Seat. Same broken seats needing adjustment, same awesome FA that bit the bullet and made his good spirts deflect the stupid carelessness that’s going on with these planes. This flight was 2.5 hours late arriving at 1:30AM to PDX. Received another “sorry” 1 sentence email a few hours later.
What gives ? I’m doing my best to avoid any Airbus that’s not 321 (good luck figuring it out sometimes) with this airline. . Between neglect, lack of upgrades (only 8 seats) and poor reliability of these AB, What a major demerit to Alaska for not addressing this, and for lack of service recovery beyond that. They need to turn up the heat and get the reconfigurations DONE, so they can begin to have standards that are standard and not all over the page.
Cue the cheerleaders and naysayers....
I had a recent flight that involved one of these, and one seat in the F cabin was in-op, and tagged as so. It happened to be my assigned seat and not discovered until I boarded. Kinda sucked, but lucked out in that another F seat was available. The THREE GAs and Station Mgr all working the flight had no idea the seat was in-op. Surprise surprise, none of the seats had power and FA had to manually move seats for the F passengers. Luckily the flight was only LAX-SFO. Flight was 2 hrs late. Got a “we’re sorry” email (nothing else) that evening. Not done yet.
Next flight, SFO-PDX, OH BOY, SAME PLANE. These GAs don’t know that there’s a broken F seat, but luckily I had been booked in a different F Seat. Same broken seats needing adjustment, same awesome FA that bit the bullet and made his good spirts deflect the stupid carelessness that’s going on with these planes. This flight was 2.5 hours late arriving at 1:30AM to PDX. Received another “sorry” 1 sentence email a few hours later.
What gives ? I’m doing my best to avoid any Airbus that’s not 321 (good luck figuring it out sometimes) with this airline. . Between neglect, lack of upgrades (only 8 seats) and poor reliability of these AB, What a major demerit to Alaska for not addressing this, and for lack of service recovery beyond that. They need to turn up the heat and get the reconfigurations DONE, so they can begin to have standards that are standard and not all over the page.
Cue the cheerleaders and naysayers....
Sep 2, 2019, 12:51 am
#641
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: BUR/LAX
Programs: AS MVP
Posts: 300
I know it’s kinda special with trendy VX merging with modern-traditional AS, but hasn’t this happened before with other mergers? Namely CO and UA, NW and DA, and AA and US? Where the dominant carrier (if that’s correct) neglects the interior config of the old airline during refitting?
Sep 2, 2019, 1:47 am
#642
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: British Columbia
Programs: AS MVPG100K, Marriott Marriott Titanium Elite, Hilton Gold
Posts: 7,263
Unfortunately, the repair & maintenance of the prized white recliners fell by the wayside after the aquisition. Some were in a dire state at the time of the merger. When an aircraft seat only 3 years old at the time of merger is deteriorated to the point of requiring a blanket to cover it, there were definitely issues with VX maintenance and VX employees that weren't onboard with AS. That was the case and still is the case, IMHO, with VX inflight crew and has made the inflight experience inconsistent despite the cross fleeting that commenced in February. I think it is better, but not what it was pre-merger.
I can certainly understand not wanting to spend a lot of money on something that was problematic prior and ripping them out in short order for a new configuration. However, with the retrofits taking time, probably due in part to the delay of new aircraft procurement, at least a few have been reupholstered. Functionality and cleanliness of the mechanics is unknown. Lipstick on a pig?
The sooner they are brought out of the 70's the better. Until then, I will continue to avoid them.
James
I can certainly understand not wanting to spend a lot of money on something that was problematic prior and ripping them out in short order for a new configuration. However, with the retrofits taking time, probably due in part to the delay of new aircraft procurement, at least a few have been reupholstered. Functionality and cleanliness of the mechanics is unknown. Lipstick on a pig?
The sooner they are brought out of the 70's the better. Until then, I will continue to avoid them.
James
Last edited by Flying for Fun; Sep 3, 2019 at 6:32 am
Sep 14, 2019, 2:56 pm
#644
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: USA
Programs: AS MVPG75k
Posts: 330
Sep 16, 2019, 12:39 pm
#645
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: Alaska Airlines
Posts: 659
I don't think the back massage was working up to it's full potential. I could feel the lumbar support changing a bit, but it was quite mild. Was very surprised by the recline of the seat and how nice that adjustable foot rest is. I can see why people are going to miss the product, but I can also see how maintenance of those seats must be a pain with all the moving mechanized parts.