Originally Posted by
hillrider
The CX-redesigned version of the Cirrus product has been universally judged better than the initial/stock version. AA has the former, US has the latter.
Not all Cirrus seats are the same. Just having a Cirrus seat does not magically make it the best of the series. The mechanism is the same, but the cushioning and amount of privacy (plus other items like lighting, TV screen, etc.) are all different.
OK, sure -- there may well be a difference between models of the Cirrus seat. But the previous poster's claim was that "not all lie-flat seats are the same," not that "not all Cirrus seats are the same." I would wager that the difference between any two Cirrus seats is a lot smaller than between the Cirrus seat and the Vantage seat that DL, LX, and others are fitting, or the Solstys seat IB is adopting.
Obviously a seat selected in 2013 is going to have some tweaks (and hopefully a much better IFE system) than one selected in 2009. A seat fitted to a 773 may be outfitted slightly differently than one fitted to an A330, due to dimensional differences and such. But fundamentally, the point stands: US and AA are offering an awfully similar hard product in J. I don't see any convincing evidence believe that the merger is going to lead to a big change in direction in that area. (Certainly not one warranting caps lock.)