I have looked but cannot find any AA 787 flights from MIA??
May 18, 2018, 12:03 pm
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May 18, 2018, 12:25 pm
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Currently MIA is a hub for Latin America and caribbean regions in AA network. The fleet is heavy on B777 and B767 as well as B737. I think eventually B787-8 will come to MIA to replace B763. Maybe another year or two. At this moment B787 is heavy in ORD and LAX. Even DFW does not see much of the B787.
May 18, 2018, 8:05 pm
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May 19, 2018, 8:59 am
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Serving a route is not just a function of seats and fuel burn. There are also crews, maintenance teams, spare parts, etc. that need to be put into place in order to operate a given aircraft type out of a given airport. Adding a new aircraft type adds complexity to the system. So yes, leaving a legacy aircraft in place might be more operationally efficient than bringing in a new aircraft type and all that goes along with it.
May 19, 2018, 9:23 am
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Serving a route is not just a function of seats and fuel burn. There are also crews, maintenance teams, spare parts, etc. that need to be put into place in order to operate a given aircraft type out of a given airport. Adding a new aircraft type adds complexity to the system. So yes, leaving a legacy aircraft in place might be more operationally efficient than bringing in a new aircraft type and all that goes along with it.
May 19, 2018, 9:40 am
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The 767 burns roughly 20% more fuel than the 787 on long haul flights but as others have written there are way more factors than that. On shorter flights the difference could be as low as a wash. If that was the only or even the primary factor AA would park every other widebody in the desert and pay a premium to get every 787 coming down the line.
I assume that you must be assuming the newest aircraft model inherently must belong to a "prestigious" (and I use the word loosely) hub. That can be true but that is not generally the original mission of the 787. I think BA's 787 launch route may have been LHR-AUS which is hardly an important route for BA overall.
I assume that you must be assuming the newest aircraft model inherently must belong to a "prestigious" (and I use the word loosely) hub. That can be true but that is not generally the original mission of the 787. I think BA's 787 launch route may have been LHR-AUS which is hardly an important route for BA overall.
May 19, 2018, 10:31 am
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The OP should praise their luck as long as it lasts. Whilst the 787 might have been great as conceived by Boeing, AA's version with wobbly business class seats and narrow, cramped economy class seats is to be avoided.
May 19, 2018, 10:58 am
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Fortunately the wobbly J seats are not on issue on the -9's.
May 19, 2018, 12:22 pm
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The reason is that they can sell crappily maintained 767 to Latin America,. Try it on Jfk-LHR
May 19, 2018, 12:23 pm
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The reason is that they can sell crappily maintained 767 to Latin America,. Try it on Jfk-LHR and see what happens to yields.