makavel

Based on my two recent flights, it looks like AI is increasing the number of flights that have European-style business class rather than true business class. I experienced the following two aircraft configurations, neither of which are on SeatGuru (although the first one matches the SeatGuru economy-only A320 configuration).

AI417 DEL-IXR
-32A on ExpertFlyer, seatmap showed 3 rows business/row 28 is last row (same number of seats as economy-only A320 V1 on SeatGuru)
-onboard product was European-style business class with non-slimline seats
-middle seats were blocked
-when we took this flight in February 2016, it had true business class seating.

AI263 DEL-TRV-MLE
-32A on ExpertFlyer, seatmap showed 3 rows business/row 30 is last row
-onboard product was European-style business class with more slimline seats (it seems that they squeezed in 2 more rows of economy into the A320 by using slimline seats)
-middle seats were blocked
-aircraft tail number was VT-EXA

Attached is a photo of the slimline seats on row 1 on VT-EXA for AI263. The seats on AI417 were the same as those posted earlier in this thread by Keyser.