Full Flight: American Airlines A321 Nashville to Charlotte (BNA-CLT)

Hey guys! When I said there'd be a whole slew of AA videos, I meant it :D. In this video, I fly aboard an American Airlines (ex-US Airways) A321 over to Charlotte, North Carolina from Nashville, Tennessee! I thought the flight was OK...nothing special...and if these were normal times then it would've been fine for how quick the flight was. But obviously it's 2020. I've routinely put American near the bottom of my safety list in past videos because I thought they did more than Spirit or Allegiant did, but this flight changed that opinion at least for now. The plane was noticeably dirty around the seats and in the lavatories...and I wasn't the only one who noticed this as well. American also hasn't changed their boarding process, they didn't hand out sanitizing wipes on this flight, it was a very full flight as no seats are blocked, they aren't even handing out snacks/drinks in plastic bags taking advantage of the situation, and on top of all these things I arrive to a jam-packed airport in CLT. If you want to feel safe flying during COVID-19, don't fly American unless you have to. The plane itself wasn't much better as it had AA's older hard product which doesn't have any power outlets, touchscreens, USB ports, etc. The crew was OK and the flight did depart/arrive on time, but in general, not the best flight aboard American Airlines, just mediocre. Hope you guys enjoy!
Flight Info:
Airline: American Airlines
Aircraft/Registration: Airbus A321 (N507AY)
Seat: 24F
Flight Time: 1 hr 6 min
Flight #: AA 2498
Takeoff: Nashville International Airport
Landing: Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Filmed: June 2020
Camera(s) Used: Canon Powershot G7X Mark II
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[@greggulledge3619]

The best part about Charlotte Airport is the Aviation Museum. They have the actual airplane that Sully Sullenberger crash landed into the Hudson River. Pretty awesome!!

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Howdy, awesome trip report as always Mr.Jazz! It sucks that you had a bad experience! Two bits of insight, they probably scheduled the plane to do the weird route before the flight, and the times reflected of that! Also, it looked like the first seat you picked to move to was an MCE seat, and since you didn’t get upgraded, the flight attendant would have been reprimanded by AA if he let you be! I have flown through CLT, and it’s probably my favorite hub, though DTW and the new gates at LGA are nice too!😸😻😸

[@alejandronavarro6643]

I've been to Charlotte 4 times and the airport is nice and always expanding, Charlotte is a beautiful city... greetings from Costa Rica

[@guywantsbi]

CLT is a decent airport. Flew in and out a lot back when it was USAir main hub to switch for Myrtle beach. Now I go direct. If you like Carowinds, I am home to the oldest amusement park in usa, and the many times #1 in the world , wooden coaster, Boulder Dash. Love all your videos and am working my way through them all

[@michaelsharp3615]

i heard nashville airport is renovated and expanded now especially the southwest concourse and nashville has grown a ton since the 1990s

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Yep!

[@TodosLados]

Loved This video and the park views on the landing! You're right. A321 are very common on Charlotte. Everytime I saw an US Airways or AA A321 I said, probably is coming from CLT! Excellent video!!

[@sunnyscott4876]

CLT is a great airport. Goldilocks size, easy to use, friendly atmosphere. I'm flying out on Monday and looking forward to it. Have flown in and out of CLT for years. No complaints about it.

[@RJ-luci]

Obviously, American has gone downhill quite a bit.....nice to know for the future. Great vid as usual!

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Just COVID, It’ll get back to normal!

[@artkemberling7764]

Came through Charlotte from Nassau, Bahamas. On my way to Harrisburg. Beautiful airport!

[@mangothemagnet27]

I loved Charlotte North Carolina it was a pretty sweet airport I have been about 6 times.

[@Emily_12345]

Matthew Young true

[@solo.life.travels7215]

Hi,i live in greensboro nc😍

[@slimthickgibby6441]

this was recommended for me and i’m literally taking this same route next week 😳

[@melanielucia2043]

What about rona

[@crazycoollady]

Have you considered visiting an amusement park? I am also curious how many times you had a connecting flight to Charlotte. I had an American Airlines connection in Charlotte after a red-eye flight from Phoenix-Sky Harbor. It was actually a tiring but fun experience. After that, I flew to Nashville (my final destination) and took a road trip to Southern Indiana to visit Holiday World & Splashin' Safari. After a couple days, I took a road trip down to the Smoky Mountains to visit Dollywood. It was an adventurous experience. As you can see, I often fly across the USA to visit amusement parks. My family and I have strong enthusiasm for amusement parks, and my sister is a roller coaster geek. As far as Carowinds is concerned, I have never visited Carowinds, but my sister has. I am hoping to visit one of these days.

[@thejazzguy13]

I go to parks whenever I can, but def Cedar Point is a favorite for me atm :D And I'm really not sure, but many times

[@crazycoollady]

@@thejazzguy13 Cedar Point is also my favorite amusement park.

[@baileylynn6481]

Thanks for the upload! I have flown from Charlotte many times,though it's been approximately 20 years or so. Looks like alot has changed since the early 2000's

[@awaysheflies4428]

I love your videos 👍 And the A321!

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Me too!

[@candyhembree1480]

yassssss an A321 trip

[@thomascropper2865]

Charlotte is like a miniature version of ATL that said, I have to say that I’ve had a better experience connecting at ATL because of the Plane Train , which Charlotte doesn’t have and that makes the transfer experience a little less pleasant because one has to walk between concourses

[@Yankeejumpman2352]

Another awesome jazzguy. It’s nice to see my home airport of BNA featured on your channel. One question, anything you noticed in particular regarding small children at the airport with mask requirements and on the flight?. I am traveling very soon with United and I’m curious as to how airports and airplanes are handling masks for two-year-old children. Thanks!

[@manuelhenriquez3611]

BNA is also my home airport

[@samuelking5149]

I connected through Charlotte on a flight to MSN or Madison Wisconsin, our flight had originated in CRW or Charleston Yeager, I usually fly out of Charlotte but the flights were expensive, CRW to CLT was on a CRJ-700 then CLT to MSN was a CRJ-900

[@airwi3268]

I always love your trip reports man. keep up the good work! are you gonna fly to Milwaukee MKE any time soon?

[@thejazzguy13]

Thx mate! Not currently in my travel plans but def would love to come up there!

[@BluegrassElevators]

Another great video! I have never connected to CLT. But hey, two of my favorite airports!

[@nebulavortex3531]

I liked the CLT airport i flew there from PVD to get to PUJ and then on my way back our flight to PVD was cancelled so we had to spend the night in charlotte which was pretty cool to me and there was a severe thunderstorm at the time and i noticed the bathrooms have storm evacuation shelter signs

[@coleregan7115]

I live outside of CLT so I use this airport to go anywhere. I have, twice in my life, connected thru CLT going somewhere (one time was to fly from GSO back to CLT to fly to ORD for cheap, another time I was going from LGA to CLT with my basketball team, but then was heading to be with family in MKE so I connected to ATL and then MKE). I personally like CLT, even for as large as it is, it's not terribly difficult to get from one end to the other (although I haven't gone from the end of E to the new A, yet). I never knew you could go to that upper mezzanine in the main atrium until I saw it in another one of your videos. Definitely going to check it out next time I fly.

[@solo.life.travels7215]

👋🏼hi, i live in greensboro lol but i never been to the clt Airport

[@marioimori]

Have you seen the 1977 version of Midway? I think that was better. Thanks for sharing this nice video kiddo!

[@brownie473]

I love your videos so much I fly DL or NK I’m gone flying in 2 weeks with Spirit keep making the videos and 0:27 cool view of Nashville

[@natasiaalexander4806]

Anyone still watch this video?

[@rescuerangers2.045]

I once connected through it and it was great

[@acioa]

Love the trip reviews, they help me see which airlines are safe during this pandemic, thanks!

[@thejazzguy13]

Appreciate it and np!

[@alvexok5523]

My question is why is there a bigger aircraft flying to Charlotte than the aircrafts flying to Washington D.C. and to Chicago?

[@res887]

JetBlue is missing on the upper part of your list!

[@thejazzguy13]

Haha it'll be there once I upload a JetBlue flight during COVID!

[@papatango2362]

Full plane are good. They allow them to maybe be profitable when a 66% full SWA flight might not even break even.

[@michaelsharp3615]

rip old Airbus interior replaced with the adjustable headrests and terrible legroom seats also i understand you dont want to be next to vulnerable individuals and classic American Airlines FAs they are very strict about assigned seating

[@ryanfrisby7389]

No, I usually agree with Mr.Jazz, but they only got mad at him because he moved to an exit row, which is MCE, had he moved to an economy seat, they wouldn’t have cared!

[@davidstoffel4683]

The security checkpoint has moved to the ends of both terminals for a and b and c and d the middle portion is now under construction

[@DevonMopiedmont1143]

If you are also an Avid Railfan you will notice a Norfolk Southern 1067 Reading Heritage Unit at 19:22.

[@danielr4640]

I haven’t flown since the pandemic started. How was the flight

[@thelugoffgamecock792]

what do you expect? That he would contract a virus that is soooooooooo deadly he would have to go and test to see if he "caught it" from flying. Yes, you're that damn stupid. Please lock yourself away and bury the key before you do! #scamdemic

[@thefitnesslife4988]

This must be an old video. Concourse D is operational and the airport carpet is gone. I was there about a month ago.

[@bryangoosmann198]

Still do not get why AA will fly an A321 from BNA-CLT, but only does Eagle Flights for JFK/LGA-BNA.

[@jteaguelll]

Dude it was US AIR number one HUB until the merger with AA so it was already big But Big D is bigger. CLT is my home so I do not connect i fly nonstop from here I love it .. its get bigger every year. Wait until we get our next parallel runway... sweet...love me some CLT.... oh yeah Carowinds Rocks....325 is the Best....

[@josephsmolarski2320]

I have I’ve connected through Charlotte, I flew from Baltimore to Charlotte and connected there and then flew from Charlotte to Los Angeles(LAX) it was a very long flight.

[@nathanbarrial9634]

no I havent connected to Charlotte Douglass anyway amazing video as always

[@jonathanstarling1082]

how long was the flight?

[@jonathanstarling1082]

why a big plane for a short flight?

[@jacobrothstein2816]

I've connected through CLT airport on numerous occasions going to/from Asheville, NC, Washington, DC/Reagan, Portland Maine and Boston to name a few. Definitely one of my favorite airports because of how nicely laid out it is. I've always had a pleasant experience going through there! I espscialy love the atrium! Lots of nice natural light during the day and pretty at night with all the shops and restaurants lit up!

[@airwi3268]

Yea, I'm gonna have to agree with you on that Jacob. CLT is pretty lit. my only complaint is that the regional (E) gates can get quite crowded if ya know what I mean.

[@jacobrothstein2816]

AirWisconsin32 Oh believe me, I do! One time, I was connecting to a regional flight to Asheville through CLT after coming off a main line AA flight from Boston Logan and I could definitely see how compact and crowded the E gates were.

[@jackgoodman6976]

I live in Charlotte, and I rarely fly AA. I mostly fly frontier, which sucks onboard, but you do get to depart of concourse A north which is the beautiful new concourse.

[@NeelHippalgaonkar]

CLT is actually my home airport and it is becoming a much better airport. Now Carowinds is really overrated. It really isn't that good

[@BrianWebb0222]

8:03 - was that wing walker on his phone/texting at the same time he was walking the plane back?? 🤦🏼‍♂️. If so, that’s a huge no-no and not even the union could save his job if something happened to the plane during pushing back

[@franrc265]

Yeah, he was. He should be fired. the guy clearly doesn't give a crap about his job.

[@BrianWebb0222]

franrc265 I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. I am a ramper for UAL at SFO. We had an incident last year where two planes clipped wings and the wing walker was distracted similarly... they no longer have a job in the airlines. Kind of a big deal here to be paying attention as you’re walking the plane out 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@aaronarmadillo]

Brian Webb it looks like he was

[@franrc265]

@@BrianWebb0222 So true! I used to be a Ramper for Alaska Airlines at SFO. I've unfortunately seen people on their phones while wing walking. Luckily nothing has happened from it, but I wish the lead stopped the push and told his ramper to get off his phone.

[@BrianWebb0222]

franrc265 I haven’t seen it on our ramp here yet personally, but the supervisors are on us right now like white on rice looking for everything and anything they can to write folks up in this time of downsizing. Phones on the ramp are a big offender, so I’m sure if a sup saw it, they’d stop the push themselves. I’d be afraid of risking not only my job but the lives of the passengers on board the plane(s)

[@BCentury200054]

You should fly to Dayton sometime, birthplace of aviation. DAY

[@bluediamond196]

I’ve connected through Charlotte twice.

[@jonathanstarling1082]

why A321 for a 45 minute flight

[@jonathanstarling1082]

what airbus?

[@ericneumann8509]

24:08 and this is part of the grade, would of put it at #10. With a chance of moving up.

[@papatango2362]

I love both Midway movie. Both the version from 2019 is lightly better

[@collindaman7508]

I have went and it was nice my favorite American Hub is DFW

[@buf.aviation9977]

This is easily my favorite channel on KZbin lol

[@Wookierabbit]

That is not Midway! The real Midway was released in 1976. Watch that.

[@caidengillum]

God that intro😍

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Agreed!

[@jteaguelll]

dude most flights to CLT are full......AA HUB CITY

[@Bruhtheusual]

Nashville is my home!

[@darenmiller8778]

I use to fly on U.S.Airways, and loved them, but when they merged with AA they are just not the same. Plus I do not understand why AA does not have IFE’s like Delta does. I’m a Delta customer now.

[@brownie473]

I’m a delta customer too

[@jimmywilliams5342]

This route was my first flight 🙃

[@christopherberger348]

Betty took a run on delta and got a tube caught in her throat and said I’m dying help me fuck flying

[@jacobwise786]

If covid wasnt stopping nashville right now all those parking lots would be full and nashville would be jammed packed

[@ppnc7332]

You should fly the CLT-GSP route, a whopping 15 minutes in the air.

[@Emily_12345]

Not true

[@ppnc7332]

@@Emily_12345 in the air, it takes anywhere from 15 to 25 minutes, if you take off from CLT to the north and land to the south at GSP, it is 15 minutes.

[@Kaiden1995]

I went on cathey pacific airline to hongkong airport to Charlotte

[@flippinin]

KZbin knows I just looked up flights from Nashville to Charlotte

[@davidharris2519]

back in the day AA had a hub at BNA

[@dylanlevy2107]

Ive been to an out of CLT it's a little airport I liked it but I flew frontier which was my first low cost flight anywhere an yea u know how that went lolll

[@mikemike7990]

Sir blocking a middle seat will not help getting COVID19 you have people in front and behind...

[@sunnyscott4876]

Yes,exactly. If you are trapped in an aluminum tube 35000 feet in the air for 4 hours do you really think blocking one or two seats is going to make any difference at all? Seriously? This is the same thing in the 70s when there were smoking and non smoking seats. Tell the smoke to stay on one side of the plane! I have flown 3 times since this whole thing started and I am flying out on Monday morning. You just have to use common sense. Be careful and be courteous.

[@daprofessor3239]

0:55 looks like a kid just wrote "American" on the sign

[@brownie473]

😆😆😆 Thats gonna be my writing

[@brownie473]

This was in June 2020 btw

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Wait, were you part of the remodel process?😸

[@daprofessor3239]

@@ryanfrisby7389 it was supposed to be a joke🤷🏾‍♂️V●ᴥ●V

[@ryanfrisby7389]

I’m an idiot

[@angelrivera4102]

It was ok except for the fast forwarding

[@speedplug2360]

Yooo

[@lifesaverpilotguybland7322]

I'm flying in December

[@christopherberger348]

😂the news told me a guy went on klm great airlines but his retro feel was he pooped his pants tube got him pissed

[@reylynbautista9737]

Reylyn Bautista

[@ToanNguyen-zm6fz]

The boss baby the season 4 the gag the cakecups the go Charlotte NC! American Airlines the boss baby the Charlotte NC!

[@marilynbautista9783]

Reylyn

[@christopherberger348]

Andy said guy bump his head hit people and said the s word

[@Soccerfan13]

5:39

[@ToanNguyen-zm6fz]

Phineas and Ferb the summer the Charlotte NC! Mask face!

[@christopherberger348]

Some dude had a awful experience flying took his mask off and loudly said mask up

[@davidharris2519]

you need to go to the coaster capital of the world in OHIO Cedar Point

[@marilynbautista9783]

BoybandPH

[@michaelsharp3615]

last comment im trying to redice how many comments i make in these youtube videos American Airlines hubs feel like the pre covid19 days and the reason why the second wave happened in the united states, also ive had a family member fly American and said they didnt remind anyone of wearing a mask or enforcing the mask rule and the flights were completely full, on October 22nd ill be flying southwest from Omaha to Denver and for my grandpas funeral and ill see what my other family members flew into Denver such as Southwest, Delta, United, or American or another airline like Frontier

[@ryanfrisby7389]

Hmm!

[@murraymaxwell835]

I really would like to invite you to come up north into Canada whenever the border opens again. And check out our favorite Canadian Airline too. Westjet. Based in Calgary Alberta.

[@thelugoffgamecock792]

please keep the border to the frozen cesspool closed. The Wuhan south of the border is our of control, and we've lost containment. Don't believe the lies of the media, hundreds of thousands are dying each week! Save yourselves, keep the border closed!

[@ToanNguyen-zm6fz]

Molly of.Denali the season 1 the cough! American Airlines the Charlotte NC the CLT airport!

[@ToanNguyen-zm6fz]

Molly of Denali the cough the American Airlines the yes! Go Charlotte NC!

[@ToanNguyen-zm6fz]

ORD to CLT the Molly of Denali the cough the American Airlines!

[@unsaid706]

the US airways post-merger planes suck, honestly. Then again, every time I've been on them it's just because I got rebooked

[@ToanNguyen-zm6fz]

Toy story 3 the movie the Tuesday October 6th 2020 The boss baby the movie the Thursday October 8th 2020 Go Pittsburgh PA the movie! Mask face!