Before we begin the first segment of this “last minute” May trip I’d like to say that originally my plan for this month was to go down to São Paulo, Brazil 
as it’s a big destination I’m also yet to cover along with visiting the Brazilian capital of Brasilia while also not only covering American Airlines main cabin long haul on the Boeing 777-300RR but also fly GOL and experience the infamous São Paulo Congonhas Airport. Unfortunately, 25.1 came with a bunch of replay bugs which made making content out of pretty hard and annoying. Today the glitches were ironed out but I didn’t feel like going down there and just decided to move it to December right before the holidays and instead be more local this time, thank you for understanding and let’s get into this trip!
Good morning from Aventura, FL where I’m currently on I-95 making my way down to Miami 
more specifically Miami International Airport to embark on a short, simple, Memorial Day trip up to New York City 
like I said above, I was originally planning on going to Brazil this month but couldn’t because of the reasons explained above. I’m a bit bummed because of that but don’t get it twisted, I’m still pretty excited for this trip to NYC as I always enjoy going over there and while I could’ve departed my home airport of Palm Beach International, I decided to come down to MIA for one specific reason Boeing 777-300ER this magnificent beast is the flagship aircraft for American Airlines which is primarily reserved for premium long haul routes like flights to London, UK 
but you will find it running the occasional domestic hop usually between MIA and JFK which is the route we’ll be doing today in main cabin, I’m glad your joining me this morning!
I’m flying solo up to NYC with only a personal item and carry on and as I usually check in online, it was straight to security for me and once again thanks to my pre check it was a breeze! AA uses the north terminal concourse D as its base of operations for their Latin American/Caribbean market. If you’re flying to a major city in Latin America, American has you covered with a MIA layover. Due to the big Cuban 
influence in Miami, there’s a lot of Cuban restaurants across the airport one of my personal favorites easily being Cafe Versailles which was vital at this time of day. Our departure gate wasn’t far at all from the cafe so I was able to sip on my cafe con leche 
while watching our aircraft pull into gate D21 from the stands after its flight from London Heathrow the evening before.
FLIGHT INFO:
Origin: Miami Intl 
(KMIA)
Destination: John F. Kennedy Intl (KJFK)
Flight Time: 2:13
Boeing 777-300ER (American Airlines)
Server: Expert
this morning will be N730AN, a Boeing 777-300ER approaching 11 years of age spending each one with American. I gotta say, it’s really fun to fly these wide bodies on short haul flights whenever possible. I mean in October I chose a Philadelphia, PA layover on my to Atlantic City, NJ rather than a nonstop flight out of my home airport for a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner 
as usual, I’m boarding fairly early thanks to my status with American!
Naturally with the B77W being AAs biggest aircraft and flagship, it contains the most seats out of any aircraft in the fleet with 304 across 4 soon to be 3 classes, 8 soon to be replaced flagship first suites utilizing Safran Flagship Suites in a 1-2-1 configuration. 52 Safran Cirrus II seats also in a 1-2-1 configuration making up the flagship business cabin. 28 2-3-2 arranged Collins Aerospace MiQ seats for the premium economy cabin and the remaining 216 economy seats in the typical 3-4-3 configuration using Safran 5751 slimlines, 28 of those seats are extra legroom main cabin extra seats. My seat will be towards the rear of the forward economy cabin 27A which was AMAZING, good padding, decent legroom and an IFE screen but I should’ve expected this from a long haul aircraft. We boarded and pushed back on time but due to heavy traffic, we were sitting on the taxiway in line for a good 15-20 minutes before we could make use of MIAs runway 8R for take off!
Till Tuesday Miami!
Flying over Miami
is easily one of my favorite experiences in the world 
the views over downtown, Brickell, Biscayne Bay and Miami Beach never get old but now we turn north continuing our course to New York City!
We’d be cursing at 37,000ft for this ride up the east coast and spending it over the Atlantic Ocean for the first portion of the flight before hugging the coast line for the remainder of the flight.
The crew soon started the service and even with a long haul aircraft, we’re still getting short haul service consisting of biscoff cookies and a choice of beverage which I chose a Coke to accompany my cookie 
it was plentiful and all I really needed on this flight as I can wait till I land in New York for lunch. The crew were also really good, the purser specifically was retiring and he made sure not only he had a good retirement flight, but we all had a good one to 4 stars to them! 
As for IFE, the Panasonic eX2 AVOD system with live TV is featured along with Panasonic high speed satellite Wi-Fi for a fee of course which I avoided although free WiFi is coming soon for AAdvanatge members but that’s not until 2026. I saw Wicked on the IFE which is a movie I’ve been wanting to watch for some time but couldn’t because the runtime is 2 hours and 40 minutes while this flight is 2 hour and 13 minutes. So I simply just popped on 21 jump street and enjoyed the ride up north!
Around 30 minutes into the movie and we’re flying back over land by Wilmington, NC!
Soon enough, we flew right by Atlantic City, NJ meaning it was soon time to begin our descent into New York
, we fly along the coast before heading a bit into the Atlantic towards Long Island before turning left base to line up on JFKs RWY 31R. Here’s a view of the Jersey shoreline as we point our wing towards the ground, I love these POVs! 
Flying over Long Beach, NY located on Long Island as we begin the final approach for JFKs RWY 31R.
TOUCHDOWN! Welcome to New York City!
I’m glad to be back since I haven’t been here in almost 2 years and I’m really excited to see my friend again who I also haven’t seen in a while. As for how this flight went, it was really good yeah the long haul aircraft made this flight much more comfortable than it normally would be but even the soft product was great, especially the purser and if your reading this, I hope you have a great retirement! I’ll definitely fly American again when flying between South Florida 
and New York City especially if a widebody is available!
Ahhh it’s definitely been a while since I’ve been at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the last time also being almost 2 years ago and while nothings changed in that time, it was definitely a refresher to be back. Unfortunately our arrival gate pretty much had no views of the aircraft and in order to get the best picture, I had to get to the satellite building across the ramp to take it and while it isn’t the best, it’ll do for now. Our aircraft is now off to a normal destination for this aircraft Heathrow and as for me, it was straight out the terminal as I didn’t have any checked bags and made my way towards the subway to get to a restaurant in Jamaica to eat lunch with my friend. That’ll be it regarding my flight on American’s flagship Boeing 777-300ER in main cabin from Miami
over to New York’s JFK stay tuned for Tuesday as we make our return to the 305 also on AAs B77W and as always between now and the next time, see you in the sky! 
Oh and one more thing, @Anthony_Gulluscio summon
