Djokison

It'll be the LUS version, when it's changed to a LAA 75L, the flight number will be changing to a LAA flight number as well.

In J it's a major improvement, in coach, I guess it would depend what you're into. IFE is mildly improved, still overhead, but the screens are better. Other differences: movable winged headrests, and changed exit row configuration.

The LUS plane has better legroom in Y-, but the LAA plane has MCE. I'd say the LAA 757 interior is in somehwat better shape as well.

jongesander

No, they swap the planes on 09/07. You can see it on the flight number. LAA 757 has flight number 204.

zkzkz

I cheaped out and bought the cheapest ticket for an upcoming trip which goes DUB-CLT-DFW. The DUB-CLT is on a pmUS 757 which it turns out has no real MCE seats, no entertainment, no anything from the 21st century it looks like.

How much credence should I even give to the seat plan anyways? It looks like this route is on a 333 until just a week or so before my flight when it switches.

I can deal with no entertainment, I'll just take a hard drive full of tv shows and movies for my laptop.

Am I better off with one of the "MCE" seats that are really an exit aisle? I hate those tray tables in the armrest and the online seat descriptions make it sound like they don't really have much extra space. But if I want to use my laptop for entertainment every millimeter of space makes a difference.

I decided it wasn't worth the copay to upgrade to the subpar J on this plane. Are the chances of opups on these planes any higher than other aircraft? Does AA even consider non-AA OW status for opups?

Also, anyone know if OW Sapphire on AA out of DUB get access to the "51st State" lounge post US preclearance?

RupertC

I'll keep it simple. The LUS 757 is the worst plane in the fleet for transatlantic travel.

Djokison

It's nothing special. The interior's worn, real worn. With that being said, Y has decent pitch (though that might be undone by the oldschool non-slimline seats), the seats are quite padded, though they do lack (as do all LUS planes, except for the A319) a winged adjustable headseat. Row 24 or 7 ABC is your best bet for legroom. Prop your feet up on your rollaboard and it'll be a pretty decent trip.

See the following thread for further info: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-thread.html

FlyingLaw

I flew CLT-DUB on the last flight of the year in 2015 in the LUS 757. Though I flew J, I can confirm it is the worst TATL plane in the entire AA fleet (maybe of all US TATL carriers?). Its right out of the late 1990s. The J seat was adequate but not worth the price. However, The Service was among the best I've ever had on AA. The FA working the (very small) J cabin was OUTSTANDING. As far as Y. as Djokison Said, go with 7ABC. Its in a "mini"cabin forward of the boarding door. Those seats are far more private, have more room, and you'll be first off the plane. You also wont have everyone walking past you during boarding.

Edit: Forgot to mention my return flight! I flew DUB-PHL on my return in J on the A332. Decent leg room for Y and the IFE was pretty good. I was able to watch a movie or two and even get a nap in (I was in DUB for 36 hours). The service was a C. Not great not terrible.

jasondc

I find in these circumstances that as long as you're mentally ready and prepared for what you've gotten yourself into and have expectations set appropriately then all is fine. It sounds like you have - you got a cheap ticket and you're going to be in an exit row and you have made accommodations for your entertainment. I'm sure it'll be fine.

zkzkz

Hm. My seat layout doesn't match that. It shows rows 4 and 5 in the minicabin. Row 7 is the first row of the main cabin. Seatguru calls this "v5" and the one you describe "v4". Are some planes renovated? Is it possible this isn't going to be as bad as I feared?

I currently have 4D and 4F for my outbound and return. This has the bulkhead in front which I fear means no underseat storage. It also means no lying down if or even spreading out if there's a seat next to me free.

Fanjet

Am I missing something here? Are there some LUS 757s which do not have the overhead TV monitors for IFE in coach (like the LAA 757s and 763s)? Because the ones I flew on did.

zkzkz

The last time I was on a plane with overhead entertainment screens was 2007 and the movie was the Kite Runner -- in the native Dari dialect of Farsi with subtitles that were utterly illegible from five feet away on those tiny screens let alone twenty or thirty feet away.

So yeah, if you want to watch a movie you're not interested in at an uncomfortable angle above your head on a screen that's too small to see too far away, sure there's entertainment using technology that was obsolete ten years ago. But realistically in 2016 overhead screens don't really count any more.

airb330

The LUS 757s have them but the quality is pretty bad. The one near my row had lines on them the entire time. It was great timing that my iPad suddenly wanted to connect to the internet to re-verify my Comcast account and my amazon prime account, so none of my stored content worked. So I was stuck with the fuzzy monitor 3 rows up from me.

On the + side, the LUS 757s have comfortable seats and decent pitch ^

DCAflyer81

Guess you haven't taken too many AA domestic 737's, then? Pretty common to get one with the overhead screens, not personal seatback.

JDiver

Ughly! Flying PHL-LIS in this old dog in retrograde Business class in October. 220,000 miles plus $11.20 for two.

OTOH, other days they wanted 270,000 miles for two! And for one ways AA wanted $3,373 per person one way IN COACH, $$5,742 in Business. Because it's one way, repositioning to catch a cruise.

All that were left were 1A-1C on the transat.

phlwookie

You'll live :-) LIS is one of those routes that AA probably wouldn't be able to sustain with larger aircraft. It is a shame these 757s haven't had interior investments made, though with one of the legacy AA ones apparently moving to PHL-AMS soon hopefully other routes will follow.

JDiver

Agree. I've survived JFK-JNB, LAX-SYD etc. in coach, not to mention military transports including "Old Shakey" (C-124 Globemaster).

Now that the first 757 is out with the same seats in J as the A321T, I wonder if we'll eventually (in AA speak, what, 2020?) see these on AMS, DUB, LIS etc.