Originally Posted by
Thunderroad
....if two people are traveling together you can turn the two middle AA F seats so that they face each other, which is nice for dining....
Unlike buddy seats, particularly on BA - they should be abandoned. Annoying for the passenger directly in front - impossible to sleep with a loud business discussion taking place 24 inches from your head.
Top choice from the big four: always CX - on a different level
Then QF (when you can find an F flight - they're disappearing quickly)
Then, a long way down, BA (zero pts for still providing a lottery between old and new F; snooty attitude)
Bottom, by a mile, AA (tatty seats; domestic-level inattentive, noisy attendants; poor food)