teemuflyer

As all of this is subjective, we are all entitled to our opinions. I have flown them long haul multiple times in J and F, and pre-covid times, I was very much satisfied with their F&B offerings. Even in Y, they serve decent beers.

born sleepy

BA managed to serve a nice hot (small) meal in Club LHR/AMS which is maybe a 45 minute flight. The FA gave us some Bolly minis on exiting. Bolly? Stoli? Bolly Stoli?

Of course this was a long time ago.

NW.BTR.Than.The.Rest

At the inferiority of AA.COM. It lacks functionality of both UA and DL websites/apps. I stick with AA solely because I prefer AA's biz seat for Transoceanic flights. 777s and 787s that is. I've not had the misfortune of a 767 which permeates DL routes.

Antarius

BA had a rough patch in the early days of Alex Cruz. But since then, they've improved.

Antarius

DL's 767s are quite nice, unlike the half assed mess that AA used to trot out.

But yes, 100% agree on the app and website. AA IT systems are absolutely horrid.

Repooc17

In what ways? 763s are aging dinosaurs but DL still trouts them out as staple equipment on some of its premium routes - e.g. between JFK and LAX.

Antarius

The airframe is old, but the cabin is in decent condition. 1-2-1 staggered lay flats up front.

Better than pretty much anything UA flies domestically and better than most of AA's domestic fleet - the AA 321T's are, of course, excellent.

Repooc17

Your info is quite outdated.

UA generally runs at least one 78J (787-10) every day in each direction between EWR and LAX + EWR and SFO, in addition to 787-9 (some Polarized, some have not), along with subs of 77W, and Polarized version of 772. They are also easily found other domestic routes, mostly hub-to-hub.

Similar stories at AA, 77W and 772 can be found on many hub-to-hub routes.

If you are going to compare widebodies on domestic routes, UA and AA run circles on DL.

econ

In my experience in the year or two pre-Covid, even the meals that I got on BA Club Europe were more satisfying than what I got on AA TATLs.

Antarius

You can find the 77W on ONE route. MIA-LAX. Periodically it shows up as a sub, but that's luck of the draw. And UA flies their 2-4-2 77As around (or did until they got grounded) as well as their non-polaris birds quite a bit. Both are inferior to AA's widebodies and DL's.

Regardless, the OP isn't asking about switching to DL, so it's a moot point.

Repooc17

While AA is only using its 77W on one route currently, its 772 has been consistently used on multiple hub-to-hub travels - e.g. JFK<->MIA; MIA<->DFW; DFW<->ORD

UA does not use 777HD (2-4-2) on its TCON routes as normal equipment, even prior to the voluntary grounding; it would use its 738/9 before subbing in 777HD. I fly these routes almost weekly, it's been a combination of 77J, 789, and 752 (most common), but also 77W, 772, and 788 also appear on the schedule quite a bit.

Redhead

I'm lifetime Plat on AA and have had quite good success in getting upgrades. I like the 500-mile cert process for that exact reason.

ORDflyer92

As a former UA flyer who switched to AA it really just depends where you like to go. By far my most flown route is ORD-LHR but I like having the flexibility to book a BA flight if the time suits me better, rather than being tied to UA's schedule. So OW makes more sense to me. I also hate UA's new qualification system although if you fly a bunch of short haul, it probably benefits you. I am not a fan of most *A products in J (I don't really fly F internationally); Lufthansa, Austrian, and SAS are all inferior to BA on transatlantic flights imo. TAP, ironically, is probably the best of them aside from Swiss based on my last trip. Not sure what the complaints are about BA's F&B offering either considering they use Do&Co (talking about their offerings pre-pandemic of course). I also would not discount Finnair (they have the best first class lounge in Europe in Helsinki imo), and Iberia is not great but I would not say it's meaningfully worse than Austrian, for example. The only way I could see the argument that *A has a far superior European offering is if you include TK, but it seems a stretch to connect in IST for flights to anywhere in Europe, and Turkish still does not compare to Qatar. Now if I traveled to Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, etc. more often, my answer would also probably change.

The one thing I do miss about *A is having the Air Canada option but the addition of Alaska to OW more than makes up for this, for me, especially given that Canada seems to be going for "zero covid" so it may be a while before they open up.

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