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Originally Posted by Acey
Premium demand on LAX-JFK/SFO is unlike any other route in North America. This makes a lot of sense for AA at a much much much lower operating cost than the 762 which has the lowest CASM in their fleet.
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There is a good post on airliners.net about this. AA has the lions share of the contracts from LAX-JFK which is why they have this sub-fleet. I do enjoy how the article makes it sound like they are doing this because of competition and not simply economics. 762 CASM is thus that it doesnt make any more sense so they replace it with something more suited to the non stop routing. No point in competing on price when someone can do that on a one-stop routing through ORD, PHX, or DFW with AA.
I am a bit surprised not to have at least a few Y+ seats on the layout to reduce the upgrades of Y passengers to C.