Avianca A330 new business
Oct 17, 2017, 3:54 pm
#3
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Thank you!
Dec 4, 2017, 8:42 pm
#4
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Anyone have any updates on this? Seems like there's no info on the AV A330 retrofit schedule at all!
Dec 12, 2017, 3:39 pm
#5
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In latin america we don't know what "schedule" is... Just an example, some A320's still have the old 1997 Grupo Taca (red top, blue tail), and 2008 Taca (red tail, red parrot) liveries...
Dec 13, 2017, 4:32 am
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This the fourth 330 for O6. Fortunately, all of them have the new seats on C. My guess is AV will keep their current 330 as they are today. Does anyone know if they still have more 787s to come?
Dec 13, 2017, 4:37 am
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I guess they still have some Aerogal paintings in Ecuador as well? In a way, I think its nice to see these old schemes still flying.
Dec 13, 2017, 7:19 am
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I was following the AV A330 seat news last year because I had BOG GRU and SCL BOG booked. It was my understanding that when they introduced the B787 the plan was to offer the 1-2-1 seating on the A330 too. As mentioned above there were a couple that were retrofitted and there was some fanfare on social media. I did not know that these A330s had gone to O6. Eventually it was my understanding that this plan to retrofit the1-2-1 seat into the A330 had been ditched for whatever reason so Avianca resigned itself to not having a common seat on its long range wide bodies.
Dec 15, 2017, 4:21 pm
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I just booked tickets from JFK to BOG in early Nov. 2018.. and the A330 scheduled for the trip down has 4 seat across in Business- so unless it's an error it seems some of the A330'S with the new reverse Herringbone seats are making it on to the schedule
Jan 7, 2018, 4:10 pm
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Feb 27, 2018, 1:51 pm
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I just booked a multi-city flight in business class on Avianca for September 2018: JFK-BOG-LIM; LIM-CUZ; CUZ-BOG-JFK. I'm on A330s for JFK-BOG, BOG-LIM and BOG-JFK. I can't see the seat map as I booked on Expedia (I couldn't figure out how to book a multi-city routing on the Avianca website). Anyways, it appears that I've been assigned 3D, 3E for JFK-BOG, 1A, 1C for BOG-LIM and 1D, 1E for BOG-JFK. According to seatguru, the old layout does not have "E" seats in business class, so this would suggest that I'm on the new 1-2-1 reverse herringbone A330 for at least the JFK-BOG and BOG-JFK flight.
(Separately, it was an amazing fare IMO. Total cost for the ticket was US$1,250/person)
(Separately, it was an amazing fare IMO. Total cost for the ticket was US$1,250/person)
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Feb 28, 2018, 3:32 pm
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I just booked a multi-city flight in business class on Avianca for September 2018: JFK-BOG-LIM; LIM-CUZ; CUZ-BOG-JFK. I'm on A330s for JFK-BOG, BOG-LIM and BOG-JFK. I can't see the seat map as I booked on Expedia (I couldn't figure out how to book a multi-city routing on the Avianca website). Anyways, it appears that I've been assigned 3D, 3E for JFK-BOG, 1A, 1C for BOG-LIM and 1D, 1E for BOG-JFK. According to seatguru, the old layout does not have "E" seats in business class, so this would suggest that I'm on the new 1-2-1 reverse herringbone A330 for at least the JFK-BOG and BOG-JFK flight.
(Separately, it was an amazing fare IMO. Total cost for the ticket was US$1,250/person)
(Separately, it was an amazing fare IMO. Total cost for the ticket was US$1,250/person)
Mar 1, 2018, 10:00 am
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Mar 5, 2018, 7:23 am
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I really wish Avianca would update their website to give greater clarity on this situation. The only thing I could find was a press release from December stating that they'd be swapping out WAMOS and EVELOP aircraft but only on Madrid-Cali and Madrid-Medellin routes (AV014, 015, 016 and 017). No mention of using WAMOS on JFK-BOG. The only information on their widebody business class seats they have on their website are the new reverse herringbones on the A330's and 787s.