August 2012
New Planes And New Experience
Experience the future of travel as we up- begin taking delivery of over 40 Boeing 787 Traveling Coast to Coast grade our fleet with hundreds of new planes Dreamliners for international travel in the When you travel between New York’s JFK and refresh our existing aircraft to bring you near future. and San Francisco International Airport, and a more modern, comfortable and connected between JFK and Los Angeles International experience. We’re changing the way you fly Touring North America Airport, you’ll appreciate that American plans as we build toward the youngest fleet in the Our fleet is being updated with cutting- to be the only carrier to offer you a three-class sky in five years among the five largest U.S. edge aviation technology and design. Since cabin, plus fully lie-flat First and Business airlines. May 2011, we’ve been adding up to three Class seats including all-aisle access from Boeing Next Generation 737-800 planes to every First Class seat on our Airbus A321 Exploring the Globe our fleet each month, which feature Boeing Transcontinental aircraft. These planes will We’re updating our international fleet Sky Interior — a contemporary atmosphere also offer the option of four to six more inches with new and refreshed planes to keep you and enhanced lighting. Beginning in 2018, of legroom with Main Cabin Extra seating. comfortable on flights around the world. Be we also plan to add 100 new Boeing 737-800 among the first to enjoy a world-class travel MAX planes, which will offer a fresh, modern experience on our new Boeing 777-300ERs, inflight experience as well as more environ- featuring fully lie-flat First and Business mentally friendly engines. Additionally, we Class seats with all-aisle access. From new plan to introduce 130 Airbus A319 and Airbus cabin interiors and updated amenities, to Wi- A321 aircraft beginning in July of 2013, with Fi, the new aircraft will offer you a unique, continued deliveries through 2017. As we state-of-the-art travel experience. We’ll also welcome new planes to the American Airlines fleet we will retire aging members of our fleet – meaning that no matter where in North America you travel, you will experience more comfort and style in every cabin.
Airbus A321: Business Class Cabin (Top) First Class Cabin (Bottom)
We are excited to bring you the things you value most — a modern, comfortable flying experience, a leading network to the world’s largest cities, and world-class products and technology, Follow our progress to improve and mod- Boeing 737-300ER: Business Class Cabin outfit- ernize your travel experience and see all we ted with fully lie flat seats - all with aisle access (Top) Main Cabin designed to improve overall cus- B737-800: Economy Class Cabin featuring the are doing to help you Fly Better. tomer comfort (Bottom) Boeing Sky Interior (Top) First Class Cabin (Bottom) August 2012
What’s Going On In Japan
More flights To Brazil From Haneda
American Airlines was recently granted permission from respective government au- thorities in the United States and Brazil to add a total of 17 new flights between the countries this fall. And, passengers travel- ing between Japan and Latin America will enjoy seamless connections from our Tokyo- Haneda to JFK flight, enabling you to arrive in Brazil the same day you depart from Japan. Never before have there been so many travel options or such seamless connections. Additionally, American will launch a sec- ond daily flight between New York’s Kennedy Airport and São Paulo effective October 1. From To Flight Departs Arrives Frequency In other news related to travel to/from Latin New York-JFK São Paulo 967 10:00 a.m. 8:45 p.m. Daily and South America, beginning on November São Paulo New York-JFK 966 7:40 a.m. 4:35 p.m. Daily 15, American will upgrade its daily Miami to Salvador flight, with continuing service to (all times shown are local) Recife, from one-stop to non-stop service five [Reference: Haneda-New York schedule from August 21 to October 27, 2012] days per week. American will also increase From To Flight Departs Arrives Frequency its current one daily non-stop flight between Haneda (HND) New York (JFK) 134 6:50 a.m. 6:25 a.m. Daily Miami and Rio de Janeiro to two daily non- 10:15 p.m New York (JFK) Haneda (HND) 135 7:00 p.m. Daily stops in mid-December. (next day) Following below is the schedule for new flights from the Miami hub.
From To Flight Departs Arrives Frequency Finally, beginning June, American Airlines Daily except increased service from Miami to Brasilia and Miami Recife 221 11:00 p.m. 9:20 a.m. Thursday and Sunday Belo Horizonte from 5 and 3 flights a week to Daily except Recife Miami 220 10:40 a.m. 5:10 p.m. daily and launched new service between its Friday and Monday Miami hub and Manaus, its seventh destina- Daily except Miami Salvador 239 11:25 p.m. 10:25 a.m. tion in Brazil. Tuesday and Saturday With commanding flight services between Daily except Salvador Miami 238 11:50 a.m. 4:50 p.m. North America and Brazil, American serves Wednesday and Sunday Brazil from Miami to Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Miami Rio de Janeiro 901 8:25 p.m. 8:00 a.m. Daily Manaus, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador Rio de Janeiro Miami 990 11:15 p.m. 5:15 a.m. Daily and São Paulo; from New York – Kennedy (all times shown are local) to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; and from Dallas/Fort Worth to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In total, American offers nearly 800 weekly flights to more than 40 cities through- out Latin America, including Mexico, Central and South America. The Dallas/Fort Worth – São Paulo flight will be the first to feature the newest addition to American’s fleet, the Boeing 777-300ER, this December. For more information on American’s service to Brazil, please visit www.AA.com/SeeBrazil. August 2012
What’s Going On In China
HelloAmerica.cn: American’s Chinese Social Media Platform
After years of tremendous growth, China now has over half a billion Internet users. That’s more than the total population of the European community (EU). In fact, one in five Internet users of the world are Chinese and over one third only use mobile devices to access the Internet. Commonly known social media channels in the rest of the world like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are blocked in China and social media channels such as Qzone (560 million users), Tencent Weibo (337 million users), Sina Weibo (324 million users) are thriving. These are only some of the reasons why American chose to invest in a social media platform to introduce the brand and to give Chinese a platform to engage about USA expe- riences. HelloAmerica.cn launched “May Day” Concert Tickets lucky draw in March 2010, has been a huge success and its loyal community HelloAmerica.cn acts as moderator between the brand and the continues to grow rapidly with well target customer and bridges the relationship to the customer through over 100,000 monthly visitors gener- valued content. The site helps build awareness of American to create ating between 2 and 300,000 brand demand for travel agents, online, and other sales distribution channels. impressions per month. Visit HelloAmerica.cn today!
What’s Going On In Singapore
AA Singapore Participates In The ‘Friends Of oneworld’ Campaign
AA Singapore recently participated in the launch of the ‘Friends of oneworld’ (FOOW) campaign with promotions held at two major corporate travel agents. First, a luncheon presentation was hosted at American Express for 100 agents followed by a presentation at HRG to 14 team leaders. The FOOW campaign includes a competition for the agents. Each ticket issued on any oneworld carrier will go into a lucky draw to win shopping vouchers. The campaign has turned out to be very popular as entry boxes are jam-packed with entries and strong involvement from the agents in the presentation sessions.