In March 2024, American Airlines announced plans to retrofit its Airbus A319 & A320 aircraft, to add more first class seats. This announcement coincided with American ordering 260+ Airbus, Boeing, and Embraer jets. There’s now an update, as the first retrofitted plane with new interiors is expected to be in service soon.
Perhaps most exciting of all is that each of these planes will be getting an extra row of first class seats:
So, what’s the timeline with which this project is taking place? American plans to start with the A319s, and then reconfigure the A320s. Among the A319s, the legacy American ones will be reconfigured first, followed by the legacy US Airways ones (meanwhile all the A320s are legacy US Airways).
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