American Airlines Launching New Australia Service With Brand New Business Class

I broke the news yesterday that American Airlines would announce Dallas – Brisbane service. They are out with this and other new and restored routes this morning.

I wondered where the aircraft would be coming from and the good news is that the plan is for a new Boeing 787-9 to operate the route, with American’s brand new business class suites with doors. I cannot wait to try the product, along with new bedding and amenity kits and I am excited for more Australia service.

Credit: American Airlines

Credit: American Airlines

In addition, as I wrote to expect, American is adding Hawaii service: a second Dallas – Maui for the Christmas holidays and the return of daily seasonal Dallas – Kona.

They are also adding seasonal Dallas – Rio and expanding New York JFK’s seasonal Rio flight. Their LA – Auckland flight will re-start for winter earlier than planned.

Here’s the winter service additions:

American is also adding summer short-haul flying:

While there’s a better option if you’ll do a bit more onerous travel, a quick hop to Turks and Caicos makes for a nice trip and if you have Hyatt points to spend you can stay in a suite right on Grace Bay Beach.

Oddly, American’s tease included cherry blossoms and a clear focus on Japan. They’ve been awarded a slot to operate New York JFK – Tokyo Haneda. I expected that to be wrapped into this announcement as well. Perhaps, since that news was already out, it was less complicated not to mix two joint venture partners (Japan Airlines/Tokyo and Qantas/Australia) in the messaging.