The AA Manchester - Boston route operated last year and I used the route twice. It operates in the summer only - May to October and then is replaced by the Manchester - Miami route for the winter. I contacted AA and they said there were provisional plans to make this an all year service - but it hasn't yet happened.

The 757 is Coach Class only, and as Katys Grandad said it 3-3 configuration with a 6 rows of 2-2 configuration at the front; i.e USA domestic configuration.

Early last year AA reduced the seat pitch on the 757 for internal flights, but did not do so on the 757 used last summer on this transatlantic route(it was one of the "more room in coach planes")However I am told that starting from March AA are going to reduce the legroom on all domestic and international flights to 32 inches. - See separate post.

The 757 has the old drop down screens(on domestic flights as well) - but then so does their 767 used on the Manchester to Miami and Manchester to Chicago route.

As for unsuitable. Well the 757 is used on the direct East to West coast flights in America. Manchester to Boston is only about 40 mins more flying time than, say, Boston to Los Angeles.

Personally I found the short flights outweighed any other disadvantage - it took only 5 hours on one return trip - and I have already booked for May on this route and will be using it a couple of times more this summer.