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American Airlines Overhauls Boarding: Earlier Start, ‘Gate Lice’ Crackdown, And Group Reorder

Apr 16 2025

American Airlines has been doing a lot of tinkering with its boarding process. They rolled out tech to enforce boarding groups, ‘declaring war on gate lice’ by having their systems audibly refuse boarding to passengers cutting the line and boarding before their group is called. And starting May 1, most domestic flights will begin boarding 5 minutes earlier.

Now they’re changing their boarding groups again.

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‘We’ll Get You There No Matter What’: American Airlines Offers $10,000 or 750,000-Point Invitation Back Into Elusive ConciergeKey

Apr 16 2025

American Airlines is out with its renewals and new invitations for ConciergeKey status, which American Airlines gives to its top spending customers and top corporate travel influencers. It’s the status that George Clooney had in Up In The Air. They are also out with two options for customers who didn’t make it to get back into the secret club.

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Leaked: American Airlines New 777-300ER Layout Adds Business Suites With Doors—By Shrinking Lavs, Galleys, And Seat Space

Apr 14 2025

These Boeing 777-300ERs are getting a lot more seats – and a lot more premium seats – 84 to 114 total premium seats, without losing any coach seats. In order to do this, it means that current seats have to be squeezed. Here’s the final layout of the reconfigured premium-heavy Boeing 777-300ER.

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After 7 Years Of Waiting, American’s New 787-9s With 51 Suites Are Coming—Insider Sources Say They’ll Fly To London From Chicago And Philly

Apr 12 2025

I wrote last month that the first route to get the new planes was likely to be Chicago O’Hare – London Heathrow after first operating domestically Chicago – Los Angeles. In fact, the plan appears to be add new configuration 787-9s to the route so that all 3 flights are operated by this aircraft and place the aircraft on Philadelphia – London as well by late summer.

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Denied Exit Row Seat And Meal Choice, American Airlines Passenger Charges Cockpit — Forces 270 People On 8 Hour Journey To Nowhere

Apr 10 2025

An American Airlines passenger forced flight 198 from New York JFK to Milan to divert back to its origin four hours into the trip on Monday night – after he became irate and charged the cockpit because he was refused an exit row seat while traveling with a lap infant and did not receive his first choice of meal.

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