Originally Posted by
rtravel
Air Brian,
Could use advice on ATL - JNB vs CPT on DL in Biz Class. Trip is in March and will be prior to the conversion to the new lie flat seats. Looking for info on seat quality / recline capability depending if on 400er transatlantic or 300er (version 1 per seat guru)
Was planning on flying from ATL with multi-destination i.e. in of one city and out of other and purchasing a 1 way in betw. cpt/jnb on SAA to accomodate travel plans. i can either book ATL via DKR to JNB or ATL via DKR to CPT. the DKR to JNB is on 400 ER transatlantaic and DKR to CPT is on 300 ER.
Given the length of flight from DKR to S.Africa, if the seats recline most of the way on flight to j'burg but not on flight to c'town, (if the 300ER is only comparable with US domestic (east-coast /west coast ) biz class) i'd rather fly in/out of j'burg and i'll get an extra in-country flight.
I'm not AirBrian, but I can tell you the seats in BE on both planes (the 767-300 and the 767-400) are the same at the current time. The 767-400 is beginning a refit this year, but at this point I think it only involves 7 birds that will be used primarily to/from London. It is possible that a random one of those could occasionally end up on a JNB run, but unlikely.
So, from the standpoint of seat comfort, there is no material difference between the two and hence that should not have any real bearing on whether you fly into or out of JNB versus CPT.
The 767-300 international aircraft has a totally different seat than the domestic version you referenced.