Heavies / widebody at PHX?
Jul 14, 2017, 11:13 am
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Heavies / widebody at PHX?
So I was casually looking at flight availability for a flight I'm on (669 next Tuesday) to PHL on the typical 321 'bus. J7. Cool.
Anyway I happen to look at the next flight out below it and what do I see...
AA 776 0 PHX
07/18/17 12:10 PM PHL
07/18/17 7:42 PM
332
Daily
77% / 18m J7 D7 I1 Y7 B0 H7 K7 M7 L7 G7 V7 S7 N7 Q7 O7 E0
Either I haven't been looking hard enough or something else but I've never seen a A330 at PHX!
If SDC comes up for that flight I will swap quicker than humanly possible.
Anyway I happen to look at the next flight out below it and what do I see...
AA 776 0 PHX
07/18/17 12:10 PM PHL
07/18/17 7:42 PM
332
Daily
77% / 18m J7 D7 I1 Y7 B0 H7 K7 M7 L7 G7 V7 S7 N7 Q7 O7 E0
Either I haven't been looking hard enough or something else but I've never seen a A330 at PHX!
If SDC comes up for that flight I will swap quicker than humanly possible.
Jul 14, 2017, 11:23 am
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Jul 14, 2017, 11:29 am
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I don't know how often it is scheduled in the system but it will have the lie flat seats. A great ride to PHL from PHX. Last year we flew PHX-PHL-AMS and it was unusual the fly the 332 in business to PHL and then the 757 in business to AMS. The equipment seemed backwards to go from a 332 to a 757 on that trip.
Jul 14, 2017, 11:32 am
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Jul 14, 2017, 11:41 am
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Maybe we could have a consolidated thread as these show up:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-2017-a.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-2017-a.html
Jul 14, 2017, 11:46 am
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Maybe we could have a consolidated thread as these show up:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-2017-a.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...er-2017-a.html
Let's hope AA follows. I would think it would make sense to use them flying to airports that have later long haul/overseas flights.
Jul 14, 2017, 11:51 am
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Your post raised a question....about a year ago I flew phx-phl as well. It was on a 75 but a VERY off the wall one seating configuration wise. The legroom was MASSIVE and the seat had multiple albeit manual controls for recline, etc. It was almost like being in circa 1998 bird over the Atlantic. What 757 was that and are they still in rotation?
Jul 14, 2017, 1:40 pm
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Jul 14, 2017, 5:15 pm
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I pointed this plane out to my daughter this morning while we waited in "the club". It was at gate B-24 so it was right below the East facing windows. When we went down to go to our flight (EWR) I looked to see where it was going and PHL was the place...
Jul 14, 2017, 5:18 pm
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Jul 14, 2017, 6:56 pm
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I know this is the AA forum, but DL sometimes rotates widebodies onto ATL-PHX-ATL in winter. It's not all winter, and it's only a flight here or there, I think, but seems to happen sporadically every winter. In the past I've seen 330s doing this on occasion. Looks like one of the turns becomes a 764 on 1/3/18 (schedule subject to change of course).