News and notes from around the interweb:
- Here’s how United will configure its Airbus A321neo.
UA: I *completely* lost track of if this came out already, but on the off-chance not;
UA A321neo: 200 total seats
20 domestic F, 180 Y/Y+
60 Y+ is to keep the pax count at or under 200, as a 5th FA would be needed for 201 pax. Very elite friendly plane, obviously— 🇺🇦 JonNYC 🇺🇦 (@xJonNYC) November 26, 2022
- One place I’ve never been is Saudi Arabia. This was a very interesting read for me, despite or more likely because the trip report stuff doesn’t begin until the very end of the piece.
- Couple forces entire Frontier Airlines flight to disembark after rushing plane sans boarding passes
- The Department of Transportation plans to impose new fee disclose rules on anyone selling airline tickets (or even displaying schedules). Maybe what they need is to disclose details of the product you’re buying, and not just the cost? Seat pitch and width, availability and speed of wifi, seat back entertainment…
@AmericanAir 2022 international flights without screens. I get the entertainment over wifi but still. Other carries have built in screens and live tv on domestic flights. You need to catch up with times as this is expected from Spirit or Frontier not AA. pic.twitter.com/tqUue1fYwG
— Jonathan Aviles (@avilesjonathan) November 25, 2022
- “In my next life I want to be a flight attendant and watch movies for 4 hours at a time”
- How much beer costs at major airports. New York LaGuardia is most expensive – by far – at $12.33 for a domestic beer. It’s just $4.33 in Portland. Not sure what to make of Salt Lake City being second-lowest.
Re: SLC low beer price: simple lack of demand, can’t even give the stuff away!
Due to the massive length I didn’t finish the article on Saudi Arabia yet but it is unexpectedly fascinating. Thanks for mentioning it.
Jetblue has 200 with no first class cabin. This shows just how much more space Jetblue has compared to the competition. Incredible. The entire plane is elite friendly compared to UA
On the watching movies tweet Gary please remove your link. It’s obviously a non-consensual photo. The facts are obviously not right either as the stated flight (ewr to dfw) is nowhere close to 4 hours. I bet the author of the tweet has a micro pen is.
That UA configuration sounds awfully tight… AA is only at 196 seats for their neos, with far fewer extra legroom seats
Wrong leaked configuration. It’s going to be 194 ttl seats not 200. Jon is wrong and you Gary for posting unverified data!!
Beer in Utah by law has lower alcohol content than anywhere else, so the lower price is understandable. It’s like cheap gas from ARCo vs expensive from Shell – even though you paid more for the latter you usually get better MPG.
You get like 1MPG more from shell. It’s not worth the higher price at all. The benefit of higher end gas is a cleaner fuel system but that really doesn’t matter unless you are driving your car for hundreds of thousands of miles. And even if it did matter, Chevron sells Techron in a bottle that you can pour into the fuel tank yourself every once in a while.
Sam’s Club gas 5X on Citi Custom Cash.
@Fauci
AA621 EWR-DFW is blocked at 4 hours and 11 minutes, actually. I won’t argue on the photo being consensual or not, though there is not a rule against taking them on AA, but it is a very long flight. Source: AA dot com and the fact DFW is my home airport and I look up these flights often, and always dread the NE in economy.
So are we to assume no service was provided at all on this flight from EWR-DFW?…if you want another beverage just ask and I’m sure you will get it.
Your link to the tweet about the flight attendant watching the movie is a new low for you. Nothing more than one person’s assertion that seems highly exaggerated (FA watched a movie from takeoff until landing and no service was provided?). This isn’t thought leadership.