In late 2025, we saw American Airlines start to take delivery of Airbus A321XLRs, the carrier’s new long range, narrow body planes (though they’re initially being used primarily for premium transcontinental flights). These planes have new business class seats, and one of the features was supposed to be that they feature privacy doors.
Initially the airline wasn’t actually allowed to use those doors, though that’s now changing. However, it’s only happening over a few months.
Instead, the doors are initially being unlocked on one plane, with the registration code N302NY, which is also the most recent A321XLR that the airline took delivery of. Then over the coming weeks (“through the fall”) the remaining planes will also have these suite doors unlocked, but with a phased approach. American notes how tech ops has to activate the doors.
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