American Airlines' special A321T - TRANSCON Business Class Review
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Date of Travel: 30 JAN 2020
Airline: American Airlines
Livery: American standard livery
Route: JFK-SFO
Aircraft: Airbus A321T
Flight Number: AA 179
Miles: 2584
Airborne time: 6h00m
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What luggage do you use?
Hi Paul. Do you have any advice for someone who has never flown before, who's scared to death to fly and has Anxiety/Panic disorder? Reason I ask is because even though I'm scared I'm also VERY fascinated with flying and planes, etc and would LoVe for one day to get the hell outta the United States!! If you have any advice for this scaredy cat please let me know and if anyone out here has any for me that isn't mean!! PLEASE feel free to reply to me.
TYSVM for your time and Great videos!! Take Care :))
In case anyone doesn’t read the description, this was BEFORE Covid-19 reached the USA.
Thankyou. Was about to question why everything is so relaxed? Lol
@@RaneMP2016 Yeah, that was my first reflex, and then I checked the description lol.
I was going to ask why LATAM was still in Oneworld 🤣
I've done transcon in First Class 3 times in the last month, and it holds up well still. You get almost full service. Still good value
Out of interest, what’s changed since this video was shot?
The flagship lounge is closed, so you have to go to a reduced admirals club. No hot food most of the time. Your meal is brought on on a tray instead of the normal dish by dish in fc. I'm not sure about in business what's changed. I was in business on my last trip, but when I checked in I was offered an upgrade to FC for $150.
150 USD isn't bad at all, even during a pandemic with reduced service. I'd be seriously tempted!
No ice cream sundaes either. Plus the flight attendants are all ALOT older on these routes. Because A) I assume it one of the highly sought after routes to work. B) They laid off junior FA's October 1st
Personally, as nice as the FC seats are on AA, I much prefer the EWR to LAX on United in their 787-10!! Something about that plane i absolutely love. I don't wanna get off when the flight is over!
At SFO airport if your spotting from in the terminus some days you can see planes bound for Oakland
sfo and OAK are about 10 miles apart also, with the Bay in between. If the winds are correct, you'll also see San Jose flights (sjc)
No masks, no social distancing, people, i miss those days
It will probably be three or four more years before that is the norm again.
I miss that too! I pray it comes back to the world soon
I prefer the masks, social distancing and no people. Introvert heaven!
@@6yjjk same
@@davidlazarus67 Doubt it considering we don't do that with the different versions of the flu and colds. Once we have the vaccine we will be fine, it just means covid will be normal like the flu.
When we are not dealing with pandemics, I’m a transcontinental flyer, leaving from the east coast to visit family in my longtime home of the Bay Area. I miss the relative ease and lower risk of traveling pre-Covid. Thanks for this video. It temporarily eases my need for an airline experience!
3:30 at DFW u can see traffic arriving/departing at Love Field
I'm having a layover in DFW when I go to Harlingen in December! Never been there before, so I'm very excited. Ofc will keep myself safe and others safe as much as possible with COVID going on, I just wanted to visit my bf for the holidays
@@zimkaseem very nice, it is the best airport (ive been through) for transiting domestic pax
You can see departures if they are on a north bound flow or arrivals on a south flow.
You can also see London Heathrow arrivals (and some departures) from London City Airport, just like New York here.
I'm sooo with you on the missing sights and sounds of US airports! Thanks for bringing some of it to my screen :)
Thank you for including the full takeoff - my favourite part of any flight.
As ever Paul, thanks for the great video reminding us of fun times!
Great video, can’t wait to experience flights like this again soon!
You can see planes lined for Toronto Pearson airport from Billy Bishop Airport, when YYZ is using 15R/33L and 15L/33R. Bu these runways are only used for only 5% of all landings at YYZ, depending on wind conditions.
Been watching for a couple of years now. One of the best videos yet.
Looking forward to watching this tonight, we’re booked on the transcon in business next Summer 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
I am a retired flight attendant and the Airbus 321 was my favorite plane. I bid on the 321 door 2, facing after. I loved takeoff. Slow,gradual into the air. This bus has a longer body with shorter wing span. Take off too fast,you will have a "tail strike". The tail hits the ground and damages it. AA has not had a tail strike,that I know of! I am retired AA flight attendant.
Good to see my home airport (SFO) being featured again :)
As a former frequent flyer who was doing approx. 30 segments per month this time a year ago, these videos are a lovely way to remind me how much I enjoy flying. Sadly I have been reassigned to a desk job thanks to the pandemic so my days of flying weekly and building status are behind me 🙁
Great vlog Paul as always
Great video as always! Just to flag that Transcontinental Flagship Business passengers don't need status to use the Flagship lounges, they can enter based on their ticket.
Thanks! My mistake - forgot that was the case. It’s just Domestic First that can’t enter Flagships unless they’re a non-AA Oneworld Sapphire or Emerald (confusing huh!).
It looks very comfortable! Thank you for the video!
Really appreciate the unedited take off!
Great Trip Report! Keep up the great work. ✈️
Great video Paul!
You talk about legacy carriers, but the truth is you’re a legacy TH-camr (in all the good ways!)
Another great video Paul.. Prior to Covid I traveled for work and leisure, not having stepped on a plane this year may seem trivial to most but it’s been tough. Your videos offer somewhat of an escape, I especially miss traveling to the US so enjoyed this Vid.. keep up the good work sir
Well done Paul as usual. Good thing I checked to see when you had recorded this because seeing the buffet I figured the Governor of NY was going to have a cow when he saw this. Keep up the good work sir and God bless.
Love the landscape.
Very nice service and great video wonderfully presented.
Spectacular views from your window on America Airlines.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
3:35 this is possible at Toronto Pearson Airport, you can see arrivals to Pearson and also Toronto City airport, although if you're looking for really good views of that airport, The CN tower is your best bet.
Great video!
Did someone say breakfast buffet?! Mmmm food 😂
The best part of any flight!
Orlando-Sanford (KSFB), Orlando Executive (KORL), Orlando International (KMCO), and Kissimmee Gateway (KISM) are all extremely close to one another to where you can see aircraft flying into other airports all the time. When the southbound runways are active at MCO, airliners fly right over ORL at like 2,500 feet since the two airports are less than 6 miles apart.
Also, McDilll Air Force Base is like 4 miles south of Tampa (KTPA) and in line with their north/south runways, so you fly over an air force base at like 1,100'
3:50 that aircraft flying past "Corona" 😬
Never been on AA, but the A321L looks really good. Nice report especially the wind shot after takeoff.
You were on my favorite flight. I just took it this past Monday. I was in Business Class, too.
First class on A321.. amazimg.. never seen before.
lovely flight i enjoyed it very much
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS ❤️
My favorite American Airlines logo is the 1960s one and the Astro jet livery was so slick !
Great video! I love the AA transcons! One slight correction though: All AA A321T Business and First class passengers can access the Flagship Lounge, and then wishing the Flagship Lounge, only First Class passengers have access to Flagship First Dining.
Great Video👍🏽
Welldone guys keep up the good work stay safe 🙏
Flew this once in business class from LAX/JFK thanks to a 500 mile upgrade. The seat was great. Someone tried to self-upgrade into the empty seat next to me but the keen eyes stewardess soon sorted that out!
This A321, probably have one of the most unique configurations in the world
12:40 I think it's ludicrous that you have to pay for WiFi in Biusness class.
It's American. They make no pretense of being just a greyhound bus with wings.
@@Millennialmonitor No, they ought to be a full service carrier in Buisness. How else will they differenciate themselves from the actual greyhounds like Spirit.
American Airlines always charges for extra on top of their high fares. I don’t like American because of their high fares and bad service.
You can tell this has been edited prior to summer 2020. Latam is leaving one world and the AA 757 is gone! I also got upgrade last winter to fly this same product to LA from JFK. If you fly it sometime again or for the first time, I highly recommend the chocolate chip cookie dough bites! They are so good!
Very cool configuration on that A321T 👍 transcon, interesting term. Here in Australia we would call just call it a domestic flight. And great video btw, thanks for sharing
I used to stay frequently at a hotel near Love Field in Dallas. I could still see planes from there approaching DFW.
1970s to 2013 is also my favorite logo of American Airlines, Great taste Paul!
At 3:37 in Detroit Michigan, at Detroit Willow Run Airport a small, regional cargo based airport(KYIP), you can see planes on Flightradar24 lined up on approach to the main airport for cargo and passenger flights, the Detroit Metropolitan Airport (KDTW) also one of Delta Airlines’ big hub airports. 👍
Great video Paul - as always. Not sure if you can catch LHR arrivals while waiting at LCY but I think that is the closest you can get to to LGA/JFK
Very good video trip
I did a similar very early morning JFK to SFO flight in 2012, it was a 767 though... probably not more than 25 passengers and crew on board... it was fun having such a huge aircraft with so few people on board... the middle seats became beds. Getting into SFO in thick fog was weird though, it’s like nothing, nothing, nothing, RUNWAY!
When you're at BSL you can watch planes taking off from and arriving at MLH. In fact, they're even closer than the JFK/LGA proximity.
Great vlog as always! Where do you want me to start? ARN-BMA, CDG-LBG-ORY, SFO-OAK, MIA-FLL, LGA-TEB, MCO-SBF, ORD-MDW, LAX-LGB etc. When it comes to borders you have SW in TX and Mexico. Two airports next to one another in two countries. Basel, Mulhouse and GVA. Three airports, and three countries. AGP-GIB? Stay safe, and be safe!
Paul, another absolutely class video.
I aspire to travel in the way you do but I am nervous of turbulence and I let it stop me.
Would you consider documenting more of the turbulence you encounter on your journeys or create a turbulence series?
I’d be really keen to see how often you encounter it and to what degree. It would certainly inspire me more to fly!
Turbulence typically isn't too bad, and the majority of the time you get very little to no turbulence. And when you do get turbulence, it's usually just a very small shake, nothing too big. Getting turbulence really bad is usually very rare, so there's no need to worry about it, tho I do understand the anxiety behind it.
I agree Paul about missing the 757. I took numerous flights within the US and across the Atlantic and always had a great experience. I don't mind single-aisle planes at all.
I enjoyed American's a300s. It was too bad I couldn't get on one before they were retired. 😥🤦♂️ I almost did but had to change my dates and ended up with a different routing.
You can see aircraft landing at KIX from Kobe Airport. If the flight is landing at KIX from the west, it would fly very low (around 2000 ft) just south of Kobe Airport and then make a right turn to line up to the runways of KIX. Also, I think you can see planes landing at HKG from MFM, if flights are landing from the South China Sea and HKG is busy, so that the flights would be flying north from the Sea at a path fairly close to Macau, and make a right turn just southeast of MFM to line up with HKG's runway, landing from the west. The last one I am not sure: can you see OAK from SFO (and v.v.)? They are just a narrow bay apart.
NICE!
JetBlue Mint is the top of the line when in comes to American transcon service.
Interesting this cabin layout, wonder if they will adopt it for their XLRs in the future as well on TATL routes
Hi Paul. Great videos... Keeps me going even if working at for a ground handling company @ LHR just keeps my head above the water. Takes my mind off all the stress.
Keep it up.
Have you thought about doing a video about the current situation and domestic flights from LHR but smaller airlines and not BA?
Cheers keep safe
that makes for a busy sky!!
When I was at Dallas Love I could see planes landing far away at DFW
The passenger association makes all kinds of money selling "stars" to airlines.
At sfo you can watch arrivals and departures at Oakland. I think you can also see arrivals and departures at Kobe from Osaka Kansai on a day with good visibility as well.
Great video! -from a new yorker haha
Looking forward to Delta One in the A321neo in the future.
My favorite flight ever was a American Dreamliner to London
I have been on America Airlines to JFK Airport in July 2005, the hottest summer ever in New York then.
I used to work on the tarmac for a couple of different airlines at Oakland International (OAK) and would be able to see the air traffic across the bay at San Francisco (SFO).
Of course Mutala Mohamed international airport Lagos
Where 2 different airport share the same name and are 0.4 miles away from each other.
Basically they share almost every thing except for the terminal and runway, even though if they wanted they can also share their runway.
I'd really like to see the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport be featured on this channel one day. It's a very nice airport, although very small. It made me happy to see SB make a cameo in the Pacific Surfliner video.
Can see Pearson traffic from Bishop, Cleveland Hopkins from Lakefront, and LAX from Santa Monica.
I like window seat too where I get a good view outside the airplane.
The trans con service is called flagship. There is a dedicated check in and flagship lounge is included only on the special transcontinental .
Thanks !
Rand Airport, FAGM, South Africa. You can see aircraft on approach for runway 03L and 03R for OR Tambo International
If you happen to fly from Le Bourget in Paris, You easily can see flights from Charles de Gaulle :)
Both Hayes Heliport and RAF Northolt are within visual range of Heathrow - so you can view take offs and landings to/from there
Thank u for trip journey:) & for video :) i havent fly with America airlines :), my first trip 2 america 2 nyc went with virgin :) mostly BA and wasyjet for short haul flights to Spain rome etc :)
Oh man I was hoping the Zephyr was next when i saw the title. Sssiiiggghhh oh well reviewing flights is nice too. Maybe in the future.
Howdy, great review and trip report as always Paul! I’m starting to get worried since Paul missed JFK!😹😸😸
You stated the wrong thing about lounge access. AA does allow both first and business class passengers on the transcon to access the flagship lounge, because it is marketed as Flagship First and Flagship Business.
They left my luggage in New York when I went to Berlin, it took a couple of days to get it to me. When I left Berlin they lost and had no idea where it was. Numerous days later I finally got it. We had to spend extra days in St Louis waiting on iit.I suggest taking a couple of days of clothes you can get into a carry on.
757 are being retired across the world. The future battles will be between A321 and 797. Boeing tried to compensate with the discontinuation of 757 by introducing 737 Max.
London. In City Airport you could def spot planes on the approach to LHR
On a clear day BWI traffic would be visible on approach @ DCA and possibly vice versa from BWI viewing platform looking south towards DC.
There are flights all the time from Raleigh to Charlotte on the a321. They only cruise for about 10 minutes!!
If it still exists you should checkout the United Chicago-Edinburg flight on 757
You can see inbound flights from Long Beach at John Wayne in Southern California
transcon JFK-LAX/SFO business class can use flagship lounge, no need to be one world sapphire or emerald, also A321T with flagship service are only used on JFK-LAX/SFO, not any other transcon routes
Paul, the 12:27 mark is unusual because the starboard side of the plane, people have their window shades up. I never understood this about US carriers. I PAID extra for my window seat and was the only one in my section with my shade up. The instant the plane took off, I could hear Wham! Wham! Wham! Everyone must be vampires, they're so bloody scared of the sun! I've even heard about flight attendants ORDERING passengers to pull their shades down. This is what I don't like about my country, there are always a few who are picky and wants to ruin the experience for others. It happened earlier in January when I flew from Dallas-Fort Worth to Orlando-McCoy. I was the only one with my window shade up. Again, I paid extra for the window seat. Fortunately, nobody got angry and moaned about it...
I'm a bit surprised you miss the 757s. I will not miss them. They reminded me that American is the US' answer to Aeroflot: ancient, creaky planes that are behind the times. I remember my last flight on a 757, which was only two years ago and it was no fun. There were no ports to charge my phone. There was an annoying rattle from a loose panel, which was a VERY VERY common "feature" on all of American's 757s. It was so bad that I called the 757 the Rattler. And they never updated the seats or cabin. They were always worn out and had no back support and never had in flight TVs when the competition already had TVs on the headrests for almost a year!
Starboard side of plane? This is not a ship in the water! A/C left or right
I will miss the 757's too because of all of their unique performance abilities. So many planes seem to take a lot of effort to get off the ground. Whereas you watch the 757s and becoming airborne seemed to be very natural.
I really am surprised Boeing hasn't revisited a relaunch of the type.
FYI - AA allows business class passengers on transcon flights to use the flagship first lounge
I just arrived back yesterday for a trip which was my first ever on American Airlines despite the 100,000 miles flown. Of course, the current service even on domestic first class is seriously lacking on the non-transcontinental flights. Overall the experience was adequate and the flight attendants were mostly good.
Try DL, in first you now get a choice of beer and wine as well as water in first, only water in coach, for food you get a "go bag", meaning a few sugary candy things and a granola bar.....As a DL diamond, i'm now flying AA and B6.....
If you visit Brooklyn Bridge Park on a clear day, you can see planes take off and land at Newark Airport.
If I can't fly Southwest to a destination, American is my backup. While priced a little higher compared to the competition, you do get more choices. AA is one of my favorite carriers to fly on for Long Haul domestic (like DAL to Hawaii or NY to SF/LA) or international. I've flown on a 757/767 between Dallas and Honolulu, not bad in economy honestly.
my favourite is the present one