Originally Posted by
weero
The J seats do indeed show some age but they are kept in excellent working condition. It's not that they would not repair those things.
Well if SQ were planning to upgrade all 77W they would probably stop performing maintenance on the seats, much like what they did to the old spacebeds on the 77E. But since SQ have decoded to keep the old'ish seats, one would at least assume they're maintaining them.