Originally Posted by
CADR
Couple questions regarding the XLRs. AA has a firm order of 50 with options for more I believe. Set to take delivery of the first one in Q4 of 2024 and with anticipated deliver of at least 5 in 2025. Their primary home will be PHL and JFK.
Questions and speculation - will the bidding on these go senior or jr and how will it work? You can fly a 319 trip one week and than a XLR the next week to Europe with a mix of trips in your monthly schedule? Will it be a 3 pilot crew with the need to block a first class “pod” for crew rest? Is the XLR AA’s true answer to getting back into the international game that UAL and DAL play so well? AA obviously made a mistake with throwing the 75/76 and 330s away so quickly, can the XLR “save the day”? Also is this the future of AA’s international fleet? XLRs and 787s? Will the 777 survive the “long haul”?
You could email Brain Z and ask him. He's pretty open to taking respectable worded Q's
Personal opinion only but if they based them in PHL, that would be one of the best bid statuses at the company. I did the 75/76 out of PHL and loved the destinations and flying - a mix of day transcon domestic and europe all in the same month.