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Press Release Source: American Airlines


American Airlines Enhances Summer Travel to Europe From Boston With Nonstop Flights to Manchester
Wednesday January 14, 7:02 am ET


BOSTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Airlines today announced the launch of a new trans-Atlantic route that will link Boston with Manchester in Northern England with nonstop flights for the first time. The daily service, on board a single-class 188-seat Boeing 757 aircraft, will be inaugurated on May 15 and will continue through Oct. 31.
Here is the flight schedule:

BOSTON TO MANCHESTER MANCHESTER TO BOSTON
Flight Departs Arrives Flight Departs Arrives
96 8:00 p.m. 7:25 a.m. (next day) 95 11:55 a.m. 1:55 p.m.


"We're delighted to strengthen what is already a very robust summer schedule from Boston," said Tom Gleason, vice president-Eastern Division Passenger Sales. "Local customers and those connecting through Boston -- whether from the West Coast or from the Northeast on one of our regional flights -- will have a choice of nonstop flights to destinations in the Caribbean, Mexico and Europe, in addition to the hundreds of domestic flights available from Boston. And the new approach we're using to inaugurate service to Manchester will allow us to satisfy strong leisure demand while developing the route for potential service with our larger two -- or even three-class wide-body aircraft."

American offers 132 daily flights from Boston to destinations around the world. American Airlines customers enjoy spacious First- and Coach-Class cabins and an extensive route network, with great low fares, the opportunity to earn and redeem AAdvantage® frequent flier miles, and exceptional service both on the ground and in the air, all of which combine to make travel on American an exceptional value.

American Airlines is the world's largest carrier. American, American Eagle and the AmericanConnection regional carriers serve more than 250 cities in over 40 countries with more than 3,900 daily flights. The combined network fleet numbers more than 1,000 aircraft. American's award-winning Web site, AA.com, provides users with easy access to check and book fares, plus personalized news, information and travel offers. American Airlines is a founding member of the oneworld Alliance.

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[MAH4546]

This has been rumoured for weeks now. It is definitley interesting since it will be operated with a 757-200ER. Also, MIA-MAN is definitley on AA's consideration block, but there is no word on if it will go ahead. AA is proposing a daily 763 on the route, but latest is that it is more likely to start operating in November. The reason for BOS-MAN and the rumoured MIA-MAN is that AA and BA can codeshare on routes from MAN to the US.

 

[FWAAA]

Unless I'm mistaken, it will be flown with a 22F/166Y 757, so why would AA sell it as one class? Why not sell the 22 forward seats? Or will elites/full fares get to sit up front?

 

[nyc6035]

Here's a question...by running this as a single class of service how many FAs will they need to staff this flight with?

Could they run this with an FAA minimum...(would the APFA contract allow for that?)

 

[jj]

50 F/As per pax oooppps that would be nice. Im sure 4 F/As will work this flight just fine!

 

[mjk]

The term 'single class' was just a typo. There are no plans to have any all coach conifg on any AA acft, nor sell the entire acft as one class of svc.

 

[FWAAA]

The term 'single class' was just a typo. There are no plans to have any all coach conifg on any AA acft, nor sell the entire acft as one class of svc.

Guess again. Check the flight service website. It says:

At present, we know that the all coach service will involve some customers being seated in a premium seat while receiving our International Flagship Main Cabin service -- similar to how we operate a three-class aircraft on domestic routes by annexing the Business Class cabin to Main Cabin.

It will be flown on a 2 class 752 but sold as all-economy. I assume elites/big spenders get the 22 wider seats.

The press release says that if it is successful, maybe we will eventually see 763s or maybe even 3 class service on the route.

 

[mjk]

My bad....would have never thought they'd do this on an transatlantic flight. Seems to me they're assuming they couldn't sell C class at all on this route. It's hard to tell where the marketing dept came up with this one.

 

[FWAAA]

My bad....would have never thought they'd do this on an transatlantic flight. Seems to me they're assuming they couldn't sell C class at all on this route. It's hard to tell where the marketing dept came up with this one.

If AA were to use ex-TWA 757 F seats (which were pretty nice) or even 737 F seats, then it would be tolerable in F (especially at a coach price). But overnight flights in F on 757s suck - there is no way to get comfortable sitting on those leather covered park benches. B)