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May 20, 2018, 4:49 am

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flymeoutofhere

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Originally Posted by Nick Art

I just checked the seat maps and omg I have never seen an A321 with so many Business Class seats. There are a whopping 43 seats in Business available on this flight. That's nearly as much as in a A333! (btw when selecting the flight it says this flight has lie flat seats as it isa n A333, which when you look at the seatmap is obviously not true, pretty unacceptable to market lie flat seats where there are non imo).

This is unfortunately the norm (has always been that way, and only recently have they added the A330 clarification), it seems like they are trying to milk the business demand from TLV with the old marketing but different product.
BA is flying to TLV with some A321 with a special business configuration, with so much demand I'm surprised LX didn't consider the same thing. On another note, OS has added a 3rd daily flight to TLV for this winter, the market expects growth, seems like a strange time for LX to decide to cut or even balance capacity (B77W on day flight and A343 or A333 on night flight would be a smart growth decision in my opinion). Tourism in Israel is up 25% YoY, LY is in a worse and worse state with falling market share and a demising reputation in the local market, and LX has the best local reputation of all European airlines in the business segment.

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