Jul 21, 2017, 11:02 pm
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The AA (Legacy US Airways) Airbus Industrie A330-200
AA announced retirement of the A330-200 in the Oct 2020 earnings report.
AA announced retirement of the A330-200 in the Oct 2020 earnings report.
Status of reconfiguration
N279AY - NEW
N280AY - NEW
N281AY - NEW
N282AY - NEW
N283AY - NEW
N284AY - NEW
N285AY - NEW
N286AY - NEW
N287AY - NEW
N288AY - NEW
N289AY - NEW
N290AY - NEW
N291AY - NEW
N292AY - NEW
N293AY - NEW
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
NOTE: The 15 A330-200 (with Rolls Royce Trent 700 engines) are being retained and updated. (The nine Pratt & Whitney equipped A330-300s have been scheduled for retirement (return to lessor at lease end) by late 2018 due to poor "fit" in the AA fleet (link).) The A330-200s will continue, however, and the launch of the retrofitted A330-200 will see
- 20 Zodiac "Envoy" type Business seats in a 1-2-1 layout (1 blocked for pilot rest)
- 21 Premium Economy (B/E Aerospace) seats in a 2-3-2 layout
- 50 Main Cabin Extra seats (same seats as Y, just greater seat pitch) 2-4-2 (2 blocked for customers requiring customer assistance)
- Main Cabin / Economy seats also 2-4-2
- Ku band satellite based Panasonic WiFi
- Individual personal entertainment screens for every seat
- Seat power
- Noise reduction headsets - Bose in Business, others for Premium Economy
Premium Economy and extended Main Cabin Extra has been installed on the A330-200 fleet. Until 15 Jan 2018, PE seats were available to Elites as MCE on those aircraft with PE; PE are available for sale on that date.
Link to A330-200 PE and MCE additions article on The Points Guy
Link to Combined AA Fleet page
Link to (non-AA) American Fleet Site, A330-200 page.
For the specific thread about the Zodiac "Envoy" Business seat, please see AA A330 "Envoy" Lie Flat All Aisle Access Business Seats (master thread)
Also see the older, archived thread on Envoy seating on the A330: A330-200 Envoy Suites
Link to Seatguru for AA A330-200
Envoy / Business (20):
* Rows 1 to 7, 4 across, private "suites", all aisle access
* Seats A and H have windows and angle out toward windows
* Seats C and F are both in the middle, angle in toward center (no windows)
* In seat entertainment with personally selectable programming
* Bose noise reduction headsets on long-haul International flights
* Empower 110 VAC / 150 VA and USB power
Premium Economy (21):
* Rows 6, 7 and 8 in 2-3-2 layout
* Seat pitch 38"
* Seat width 18.5"
* In seat entertainment with personally selectable programming
* Non-Bose noise reduction headsets on longhaul
* Empower 110 VAC / 150 VA and USB power
Main Cabin Extra (54):
* Bulkhead and Exit seats
* Others seem to be in non-standard layout
* Seat width 16.3-17.8"
* In seat entertainment with personally selectable programming
* Empower 110 VAC / 150 VA
Economy (152):
* Seat pitch 31-32"
* Seat width 16.3-17.8"
* Exits at row 23
* In seat entertainment with personally selectable programming
* Empower 110 VAC / 150 VA
New Livery (AA-style) of the A330-300: A333 in New Livery
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Airbus A330-200 / 332 [master thread]
Sep 13, 2016, 8:39 am
#377
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I can't imagine. She was out of service for only a couple of days. I do believe that this bird is one of the ones that has had the seats in Y reupholstered and the hideous faux-wood wallpaper removed and replaced with a less 70s looking bulkhead.
Sep 13, 2016, 9:01 am
#379
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Huh? The 757L is being fitted with B/E Aerospace Parallel Diamond seat in Business. Tablets for IFE to be sure, but I'd rather have a comfortable horizontal lie flat seat for a redeye than built in IFE that may or not work (assuming the option was the klugey, unreliable Panasonic system also used in thecA321T).
Oct 6, 2016, 7:20 am
#381
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Oct 24, 2016, 10:42 am
#382
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I'm currently at the Admirals Club at ORD. Out the window is A330 at the "H" Concourse. I didn't know that the A330 are now flown out of ORD! Any one know where these aircraft are flying to from ORD? Not sure if it is a 200 or 300 model.
Oct 24, 2016, 10:48 am
#383
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Edit: looks like it's N293AY today- the newest A330 in the fleet.
Oct 24, 2016, 10:49 am
#384
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Dec 17, 2016, 7:51 am
#388
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Refreshed J cabin
Currently sitting in F (J) on N289AY CLT-PHX- plane just got out of the hangar this morning and the entire cabin is refreshed...new seat covers, carpets and that nasty faux-wood bulkhead in J is now standard AA gray. A nice change, and it smells like a new plane.
I took some pics at boarding and will post later.
I took some pics at boarding and will post later.
Dec 17, 2016, 8:37 am
#389
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Currently sitting in F (J) on N289AY CLT-PHX- plane just got out of the hangar this morning and the entire cabin is refreshed...new seat covers, carpets and that nasty faux-wood bulkhead in J is now standard AA gray. A nice change, and it smells like a new plane.
I took some pics at boarding and will post later.
I took some pics at boarding and will post later.