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Old Sep 10, 2014 | 8:25 am
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Originally Posted by jordyn
Doesn't JL have angle-flat seats in business on their 787s? While it's true that I'd be more likely to buy JL's PE than deal with MCE (and the risk of truly sardine-like coach on AA), if I were actually paying for a business class ticket I'd opt for AA's configuration.

In fact, I just did something like this: paying $2K more for business class on CX versus JL. CX turned out to be somewhat more convenient as well, but once I'm paying thousands of dollars for a business class seat, I want a modern and competitive product so JL didn't even factor in.
This is the type of seats, the JAL Sky Suites, that the 78X's are getting:

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