Bake's 1:400 Collection

[bakejobb_23]

Here's N953UW that I took at DCA in 2015 and in American colors at PHL in 2016.

man I miss these birds

 

[The_SingingAvgeek]

A large portion of those ex American/US Airways 190s are now over here owned by Alliance Airlines operating for QantasLink.

 

[bakejobb_23]

A large portion of those ex American/US Airways 190s are now over here owned by Alliance Airlines operating for QantasLink.

Yes! I’m glad they’re getting their proper use unlike those poor 330s…that may change soon though as a short few have been ferried around recently!

 

[bakejobb_23]

As far as I am aware, they had 25 total birds and October of 2009 they sold off 10 of them. The rest should have been redeployed to boston for the “shuttle” routes to PHL and LGA. That’s from wikipedia so who knows on accuracy but I’ll dig a little bit to confirm. The E190s were mostly an east coast thing for a long time I know that. I don’t think they ever made it over to phoenix for scheduled service.

So here’s what i’m finding right now. There’s not a ton of information surrounding specific routes or one offs of course but this is from the AA newsroom website when they announced the retirement of E190s/767s/crj200s:

• Joined the US Airways fleet in 2006 prior to joining American's fleet in 2013.
• 20 E190s in the fleet as of Jan. 1, 2020.
• Flew domestic routes, with extensive support for American Airlines Shuttle.

so that tells me that there was maybe only 5 sold off instead of 10 that wiki says but that they were all mainly used on the shuttle routes which were between BOS-PHL-LGA-DCA.

I also found an airliners.net forum talking about the E190s when they were first introduced 20 years ago on route speculations for the future. They were based at PHL mainly and apparently BDL and PVD - PHL on top of the assumed shuttle routes it actually got. The main focus was the use them within 500nm of PHL (very underutilized as everyone at the time mentioned). I assume they might have broadened the scope of routes at various times to try new things as all airlines do from time to time. I’ll make an airliners.net post about it soon and see if anyone has any recollection on the various routes they were used over the years.

I also found a flyertalk forum with a FA talking about a 3day trip on the E190s in 2009:

3 day on the E190
Check-in at 0634

CLT-ATL
ATL-CLT
CLT-DCA
Layover of 1848 hrs.

DCA-PHL
PHL-DCA
DCA-CLT
CLT-PHL
PHL-IND
Layover of 1103 hrs.

IND-CLT
CLT-RDU
RDU-CLT
CLT-JAX
JAX-CLT
Done at 1716

It seems like they actually were used all over the place, just obviously based in PHL and not making it far away from the east coast normally. Very interesting to dive into!

 

[MIAv8Diecast]

Yes! I’m glad they’re getting their proper use unlike those poor 330s…that may change soon though as a short few have been ferried around recently!

Does AA still have A330's in storage?

 

[Boeing_3019]

Does AA still have A330's in storage?

According to Planespotters.net, they've retired all A330's but there are some left stored never to be used again (probably)

 

[bakejobb_23]

Does AA still have A330's in storage?

All but a handful are currently sitting in long term storage in the desert. AA stated they will not bring them back but the -300s were on there way out pandemic or not by about this time anyways. Qatar is eyeing the -200s that were brought in a couple years later and are the newest 330s from that fleet.

 

[MIAv8Diecast]

All but a handful are currently sitting in long term storage in the desert. AA stated they will not bring them back but the -300s were on there way out pandemic or not by about this time anyways. Qatar is eyeing the -200s that were brought in a couple years later and are the newest 330s from that fleet.

Too bad... Delta should take a look hahaha.

 

[bakejobb_23]

All but a handful are currently sitting in long term storage in the desert. AA stated they will not bring them back but the -300s were on there way out pandemic or not by about this time anyways. Qatar is eyeing the -200s that were brought in a couple years later and are the newest 330s from that fleet.

4 are currently “out and about” from my quick research:

N270AY, N271AY, N272AY & N278AY (-300s for freighter conversion I think?)

 

[bakejobb_23]

Does AA still have A330's in storage?

I stand corrected from my last post:

According to Airfleets, All but one of the nine -300 have now been scrapped. The lone survivor is N272AY. All the -200s are still labeled at stored since 2020. I believe a few -200s have been bouncing around the planet for a while now getting fitted in some way for new owners.