Originally Posted by
chimphappyhour
Ouch! I booked an award trip in a week and a half that's first/business. Will be my first time flying anything above EC and wanted to use my miles before they lost any more value. (Sounds like they might just have.) Longest leg is on a 767 from ATL to SEA. Picked this because it was the longest leg of travel I could find that might actually make flying outside of EC worth it. Nope. Lesson learned.
Note that Flight 2368 ATL-SEA is currently being flown by an 763ER which has lie-flat seats. The other 763 flights on this route are standard domestic FC config 763's. As has been noted here many times, other than the JFK trans-con routes, any domestic routes with a "business" designation are simply continuation flights of international flights. They do not guarantee any particular level of seating or service. These are readily identified as they typically have a 3 digit or less flight number. Note that flight 2368 BE seats are not sold as J fare classes because it is not a continuation of an international flight. And, of course, there's no guarantee it will remain a 763ER. It's almost certainly currently being flown with that equipment for positioning reasons for an international flight out of SEA.