The Friedman Files

American Airlines is planning to use smaller planes on more of it’s international routes, as the airline looks for ways to save fuel.

An American media representative tells me today that the airline will re-configure 18 of it’s 757’s for use on flights between the US and Europe starting next year.   The 757’s are smaller and more fuel efficient that the A300’s, 767’s and 777’s that AA uses currently on most of it’s European flights. 

The planes will get flat-bed seats in business class, upgraded entertainment systems, and new coach cabins before they start flying those routes sometime in 2009. 

Right now, the planned routes for those planes are JFK-Barcelona, Boston-Paris, and Chicago-Dublin and Manchester, UK.