Originally Posted by
dayone
Since seat choice requires significant lead time, changing to a new product was presumably require replacing already-new seats.
Too much added cost and complexity for this rumor to make sense to me. Time will tell.
AS is taking delivery of plenty of new 737s and A321s with the current AS and VX F seats despite the fact that they'll be replacing those seats in the next couple of years, so I don't think that would be a huge concern. If anything, they'd get more life out of the destined-for-the-dumpster VX seats with the increased lead time.