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Monday Marks Last Day of American Airlines A300 Service
The final scheduled flight of an American Airlines Airbus A300 will be operated on Monday, August 24th. The last flight to complete will be 1908, a PAP-MIA-JFK run scheduled to arrive at 12:49AM on the morning of Tuesday, August 25th. The last scheduled daylight arrivals at JFK will be flight 834 from STI, set for 4:05PM; and flight 928 from MIA, to arrive at 7:00PM.
Glad I got to ride one in Jan, had a feeling it was my last trip on one. AA really got their money's worth from those planes. They were certainly worn but were always interesting to fly and much larger then then one would expect.
The A300 has such a great sound spooling up and reversing on landing.
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I've been flying on these for 17 years and am glad to see that American is finally replacing them as they were, in my opinion, not so comfortable to fly on. That being said, I will miss seeing them at JFK and more so at SJU where they flew me many times. Anywhere around the perimeter of the airport you could always tell when it was an A300 taking off.
Talking to a lot of the MIA spotters on Saturday - there will be a large contingent out - getting lots of pictures from MIA. Andy and I got one of the last A300's on Saturday coming in from JFK.
Well I had an enjoyment flying on the AA A300 on the JFK-SJN-JFK!
Here are my shots of the AA A300...
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Sad day as an aviation fan, to see the last Passenger Operated A300 service in the USA.
I flew on one MCO-MIA September 11th, 2007. I was heading MCO-MIA-STL and jumped at the chance to grab an A300 when I saw it was scheduled in my itinerary. Short flight, but glad I got to ride it when I did.
My ride was on N14056
Take Off at MCO...
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The Landing into MIA
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Alex
I've only flown on the A300 one time & that was on EA when they were new, but I'm kinda sad to see them go.
I can't say that I've ever flown on an A300, but I remember the first time I saw one - it was shortly after EA received them, I was on the Cross Bronx heading back to LI, and saw one heading into LGA. While halfway watching traffic, I kept looking at the A300, and missed the exit for the Throggs Neck Bridge, ended up going 10 miles out of my way up the NE Thruway until I found an exit so I could turn around!
I've been on on the A300 three times in the last 4 years. I remember one bumpy ride into SJU
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I have had my share of flights on AA's A-300, mainly between JFK or MIA and SDQ, probably around 10-12 flights. Most of these flights where as a non-rev, and their large capacity often was the differance between me getting on and not getting on. I know the A-300 very well, we had 4 when I was with Northeastern and worked them dozen of times at FLL, PBI, and LAX along with at least 20 flights on them at Northeastern. In addition I flew on A-300's operated by Eastern (including on a Shuttle from LGA to BOS), the Original Pan Am, Pan Am III, Lufthansa, and Thai. Though not one of my favorite aircraft or certainly not one of the prettiest they will be missed.
Regards
LGA777
FlightAware is showing AA834 estimated in at 3:45pm.
I was a young lad when I flew on an EAL one. Most likely down to Florida. Not a big fan of this plane but sad to see it go.
I got out to Firestone around 3:15, FlightAware shows they arrived at 3:56. Must have snuck in on 31L without me hearing them. :cry:
Travelled on an AA -605R once, and on and Emirates -605Rs twice. SAA had a lot of A300B2's back in the day and spent a lot of time on those versions. Sad to see the end of them at AA though - a couple of my shots of them.
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Is the -600R the only variant AA ever operated?