Originally Posted by emofeng

Thanks. Which routes are the exceptions? Just curious...

Originally Posted by sdsearch

Intra-Europe routes on many airlines have "business" seats which are nothing more than economy seats spaced a teeny bit wider plus with the middle seat one each side taken out. In that case, they're not worse than economy, but not that much better either.

But for the worst examples, it's not routes, it's airlines. A few cheap international airlines (original international discounter IcelandAiir and the new NorwegianAir being two examples) have lousy substandard seats they call business class but which are no better necessarily than a nice economy seat (such as on JetBlue), and to some people maybe even worse. And certainly there are airlines which have "premium economy" sections with seats that are definitely nicer than the "business" seats on IcelandAir or NorwegianAir.