Back in January American Airlines announced a partnership with Cole Haan to develop their new amenity kit, in conjunction with some other brands like C.O. Bigelow Apothecaries and 3LAB Skincare.

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Before this kit American had their Heritage amenity kit, with the inside border and socks matching the livery colors of one of their 23423982387429376428937 legacy airlines.  I really liked those kits because they were very distinctly American and helped tell a story about the history of the airline (pictured below).

I recently had the chance to fly on American’s 787 from Beijing back to Dallas on the 787 Dreamliner and it was a great flight (report coming soon!). As part of the flight I received one of American’s new Cole Haan amenity kits.  I had my macro lens with me so I could take a close up look at the new kit.  Let’s take a look.

a close up of a name engraved on a fabric surface

Cole Haan branding

a close up of a bag

Another look

I had seen the kits in pictures and they looked pretty nice.  If nothing else they were colorful, which I liked since most amenity kits are different shades of gray.  The dopp kit felt nice enough and had a semi hardshell sort of feel to it.  But I couldn’t find any American Airlines branding anywhere!

a zipper on a blue bag

This could’ve said American Airlines

Now, full confession: I rarely use anything in amenity kits.  Even before I had the blog and gave most of them away, I never really used the products (outside of the toothbrush obvi).  To me they’re just another sword to rattle at the competition and a marketing vehicle for the airline.  You’d think they’d at least put the name of the airline on the outside of the kit!

Anyway, calmer heads prevailed and I scoured through the rest of the kit and finally found the American branding.

a black label with white text

Ah, inside cover

There was also a small logo on the eye mask.

a close up of a label

Eye mask

Aside from that it was a typical amenity kit with some nicer skincare brands (I guess?).  Everything came in its own wrapper that was labeled in a very bold typeface so I sort of felt like I was at a W Hotel, where everything is labeled for some reason.

a black object in a plastic bag

Example of everything being wrapped and labeled

close up of a piece of fabric

Socks

The socks looked comfortable and matched the rest of the color scheme well.  Aside from that, it was just a regular amenity kit.  I wish American would have kept their Heritage amenity kit because they get to tell a story of their past without costing much more than this.  Then again, if you’re a Cole Haan enthusiast then this might be right up your alley.  I dunno.

 

What do you think of the new amenity kits?

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