No More Widebodies? American Airlines Removing Boeing 777 & 787 Between Miami & LAX

American Airlines will be making a drastic change to its popular hub-to-hub route between Miami International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport. This fall, the carrier will schedule all flights on the route to be operated by narrowbody aircraft.

The shakeup is somewhat unlike the airline as it has traditionally flown widebodies between the two cities for decades. The move also represents the loss of its most premium products, Flagship First and Flagship Business, which won’t be seen on the narrowbodies filling the role.

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[tomburke]

Inevitable - not many passengers will pay 4x the economy fair for a 4 hour flight.

[erauprcwa]

This is what happens when you get rid of the 757/767

[AviationNews]

It's a shame because widebody aircraft are so much comfier

[scpatlnow]

I think some of the hub to hub widebody flights were for aircraft positioning to fly long haul routes. I know Delta flies the A-350 from Europe to Atlanta which then goes to LAX and later on to SYD

[WindowsR]

I'm starting to realize I liked it better in the yester years when planes were bigger both because of technological limitations and federal laws. The narrow bodies feel significantly less spacious than the widebodies

[thefreshmaker]

It is better to offer more flights per day with smaller planes than to reduce the slots and use larger aircraft.

[JxLx]

No!!!! Thanks for the update.. I was looking for the 787 or 777 lax to mia and it wasn't appearing anymore.. I can't stop wondering why now..lol..

[ronparrish]

Surprised they didn't put that old DC 3 they have on the route

[noroy]

In one hand these domestic wide bodies should have been configured different but on the other hand, they need flexibility to schedule long haul flights too.

[larrykang]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they change it back, I remember when Emirates replaced the A380 with the smaller 777 on the Washington & Dubai route last year which was supposed to be permanent, but they switched it back to the superjumbo earlier this year.

[MikeTaylorInSma]

This is ridiculous… it’s been doing this for the last 20 years at least.

[alooga]

American packs more seats in economy class than any other legacy carriers. I don't want to spend hours in the sardine class between MIA and LAX.

[jwaviation]

I also heard that they’ll be removing the 777-200LR from the MIA-CLT route in September, is this true?

[davidwebb]

Wheres the line between wide bodied and narrow bodied?

[DmstFinsT]

Lucky I just recently flew in first on the 777 on this route. Shame it’s going away

[jl-]

Simply convert some widebodies for domestic use only.

[jwil]

Maybe they’ll put the A321XLR on the route the way they use A321Ts on JFK-LAX

[monkiezdevil]

“The widebody meant for long haul “AA has the poorest international routing of the US AIRLINES: only 3 4 news international journalists his years and seasonal 🙄

[yzsnunm]

It’s smart but narrow bodies can be boring😂

[MaryCianfrini]

These were the only planes that had handicapped bathrooms!!!😢😢😢