- American Airlines is rolling out a new premium-heavy cabin on its future Boeing 787 aircraft.
- Upgrades include sliding doors in business class and more privacy in premium economy.
- The highly-anticipated design improves upon the carrier’s older, but still competitive Dreamliners.
After years of poor customer service strategies and dated cabins, American Airlines has been developing new products and technologies to improve its operations — especially as business travel continues to rebound.
Among its most anticipated upgrades is a brand-new three-class cabin coming to its future Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, with improvements like sliding doors in the “Flagship Suite” business class and more privacy and storage in premium economy.
The design will also be retrofitted onto existing Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A321Ts, American’s transcontinental jet. The airline will eventually replace the latter with the yet-to-be-certified Airbus A321XLR, which will also come equipped with the Flagship Suites.
However, American will leave its existing 787 cabins — which are less premium-heavy — as is.
This means the 787-9 Dreamliners will differ across the fleet, but a buttoned-up soft product will create consistency across the planes and keep the current cabin competitive with mainline rivals like Delta Air Lines.