Originally Posted by
jimrpa
This is pretty depressing. Worse, according to the OP, the only BE seats available are the inferior seats on the 747-400. He doesn't mention whether there's even availability on the 777 flight

Feh. Before the 744 was moved to ATL for the NRT flight, DL was operating it with the 777 with old BE seats that were not lie-flat and were indeed very sub-par compared to the 744 lie-flat seats. The 744 is actually an upgrade on this route in terms of BE seat.