AA:" The only 3-class widebody service coast-to-coast!"
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AA:" The only 3-class widebody service coast-to-coast!"
boasted in radio ads in the L.A. market.
How about those 3-class 777s & 763s UA is flying for years on the LAX-IAD and SFO-IAD? Huh, AA?
How about those 3-class 777s & 763s UA is flying for years on the LAX-IAD and SFO-IAD? Huh, AA?
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I imagine they were referring to JFK, reference to UA 'only' flying narrowbodies on ps routes.
Of course they're wrong, but the more interesting point is: Why do people care about widebody vs. narrowbody? If anything, I'd take a ps 757 in F over a 767 in F...
Of course they're wrong, but the more interesting point is: Why do people care about widebody vs. narrowbody? If anything, I'd take a ps 757 in F over a 767 in F...
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As far as AA is concerned (and, sadly, many others), LAX-JFK is the only coast-to-coast route in the US.
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Not really UA-related. I'll send this off to AA.
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Agree that this is somewhat of a cheap shot, but putting yourself in AA's shoes, you've got to find something (anything) to tout your service as better than other carriers' offerings, so it's not a far stretch to use the widebody angle. Besides, I think there are some people who think widebody = always better. This is capitalizes on that somewhat irrational assumption.
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Agree that this is somewhat of a cheap shot, but putting yourself in AA's shoes, you've got to find something (anything) to tout your service as better than other carriers' offerings, so it's not a far stretch to use the widebody angle. Besides, I think there are some people who think widebody = always better. This is capitalizes on that somewhat irrational assumption.
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"the most first and business class seats between LAX and JFK" as the ad also touts.
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When Benjamin Disraeli ostensibly said "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics," marketing had not yet "evolved" to its present state. "The most first and business class seats" indeed! Self-serving, empty bloviating and puffery, and I wonder who is stupid enough to buy that particular message.
Now, ask me what I really think of it.
Now, ask me what I really think of it.
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Well in AA's defense they are the only airline to fly widebodies on every flight on certain transcon routes. Yes IAD-SFO/LAX can see 777s and even the very occasional 747 but it can also see a 319. Equipment changes are derigeur on UA for that route.
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Uh, advertising the flagship lounge(s) is only useful for a certain portion of the market... the widebody angle cuts a broader swath among possible fliers.
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Yes. But a 757 doesn't count as a widebody.
Also, DL flies (or used to) do SAN-JFK...
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1) "can see": Widebodies have been continously and daily on that route for at least 10 years!
2) "de rigeur equipment changes": In well over a hundred widebody flights on those routes I have yet to experience a single downgrade from a 763, 777 or 744 to a narrow-body plane.
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UA really doesn't have any wide body three cabin "service" per se. Their service in F and C on widebody transcons (non ps) are pretty much identical, sadly. Service is most important to me, so I prefer ps F over AA AFS F, but all things being equal, I would take AA's seat on the widebody over UA's ps F seat.
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Didn't mean it that way. Meant that a flight number at a given time can often change from a 319 to 767 and back every couple of weeks based on UA's whims.