Apr 2, 2022, 7:53 pm
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FTers on DL's A321NEO Inaugural: DL1202, BOS-SFO, 20 May 2022
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First Delta A321neo inaugural flight? When?
Apr 1, 2022, 12:17 pm
#61
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The flight is (as of today) still operated by a 757 that is full in FC. When they do the aircraft swap on saturday, those folks will be moved over to that plane.
Apr 1, 2022, 8:05 pm
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I punched up BOS-SAN for a random day in September. The nonstop flight is listed, but whatever happened to the lie flat seats that were allegedly being installed in these aircraft? It was a seatmap showing standard FC, C+ and coach.
Unfortunately, the only SAN-BOS nonstop return is a redeye flight.
Unfortunately, the only SAN-BOS nonstop return is a redeye flight.
Apr 1, 2022, 8:07 pm
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There are two different 321neo configurations. The lie flat one will come later.
Apr 1, 2022, 8:10 pm
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I punched up BOS-SAN for a random day in September. The nonstop flight is listed, but whatever happened to the lie flat seats that were allegedly being installed in these aircraft? It was a seatmap showing standard FC, C+ and coach.
Unfortunately, the only SAN-BOS nonstop return is a redeye flight.
Unfortunately, the only SAN-BOS nonstop return is a redeye flight.
Apr 2, 2022, 6:17 am
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Yesterday the inaugural flight, while still showing as a 757, was about $350 one way. Today, now that the schedule has been updated, it shows as $659 one way in the Main Cabin. F and C+ are still sold out, as noted upthread.
ETA: C+ now is available but only middle seats are available for selection.
ETA: C+ now is available but only middle seats are available for selection.
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Apr 2, 2022, 10:34 am
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Wow, won't that massively complicate aircraft substitutions in IIROPs? In terms of passenger seating assignments...
Apr 2, 2022, 10:40 am
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Booked on the Inaugural flight on the 20th. 
(Just wish I had booked yesterday when it was much cheaper but I'll continue to monitor and just "rebook" if the fare drops and take an e-credit)
It won't shock me if these birds are dedicated to certain routes. AA does the same thing with its A321T fleet with 3 cabins (F/J/Y), reserving those aircraft for specific East Coast-West Coast transcon routes (and the occasional repositioning flights).
(Just wish I had booked yesterday when it was much cheaper but I'll continue to monitor and just "rebook" if the fare drops and take an e-credit)
It won't shock me if these birds are dedicated to certain routes. AA does the same thing with its A321T fleet with 3 cabins (F/J/Y), reserving those aircraft for specific East Coast-West Coast transcon routes (and the occasional repositioning flights).
Apr 2, 2022, 10:46 am
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Most likely the lie-flat NEO's will be taking over the D1 757's routes only and will not feature in the broader overall network; so no worry about seating substitutions with regular NEO's.
Apr 2, 2022, 3:09 pm
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Yesterday the inaugural flight, while still showing as a 757, was about $350 one way. Today, now that the schedule has been updated, it shows as $659 one way in the Main Cabin. F and C+ are still sold out, as noted upthread.
ETA: C+ now is available but only middle seats are available for selection.
ETA: C+ now is available but only middle seats are available for selection.
Apr 2, 2022, 3:12 pm
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The DL press release about the first flight came out 2 days before the schedule change. This was not a secret. I suspect bloggers got half the seats, that's their business
Apr 2, 2022, 6:09 pm
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I personally found out about it yesterday afternoon via a Reddit thread claiming the first flight would be DL1202 at 8:15 AM on May 20th - the post was updated shortly after with a link to the press release, which didn't list a flight number but did say the first flight would be 8:29 AM. Despite the discrepancy, I opted to book DL1202 as per the reddit post and sure enough this morning the schedule update was pushed through and it happened to be the correct flight. While I suspect many seats will be media/bloggers, there's a number of ordinary folks like myself who are excited for the flight and have booked tickets. There's likely around a dozen folks on Reddit alone who are doing so also.
Apr 2, 2022, 6:43 pm
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I personally found out about it yesterday afternoon via a Reddit thread claiming the first flight would be DL1202 at 8:15 AM on May 20th - the post was updated shortly after with a link to the press release, which didn't list a flight number but did say the first flight would be 8:29 AM. Despite the discrepancy, I opted to book DL1202 as per the reddit post and sure enough this morning the schedule update was pushed through and it happened to be the correct flight. While I suspect many seats will be media/bloggers, there's a number of ordinary folks like myself who are excited for the flight and have booked tickets. There's likely around a dozen folks on Reddit alone who are doing so also.
Apr 2, 2022, 7:53 pm
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I personally found out about it yesterday afternoon via a Reddit thread claiming the first flight would be DL1202 at 8:15 AM on May 20th - the post was updated shortly after with a link to the press release, which didn't list a flight number but did say the first flight would be 8:29 AM. Despite the discrepancy, I opted to book DL1202 as per the reddit post and sure enough this morning the schedule update was pushed through and it happened to be the correct flight. While I suspect many seats will be media/bloggers, there's a number of ordinary folks like myself who are excited for the flight and have booked tickets. There's likely around a dozen folks on Reddit alone who are doing so also.
Apr 3, 2022, 1:36 pm
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Apr 3, 2022, 2:17 pm
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