Originally Posted by
beachfan
Thanks for clairifying that the Cirrus is also Zodiac, I totally forgot. I thought it was a different company that made them since they wanted something cheaper in the Concept D. Was it licensing fees for the Cirrus that caused AA not to continue with it? Or was the seat itself that much more expensive? I wouldn't be surprised because it (Cirrus) is at least twice as good as the Zodiac, it's my favorite J seat around.
It was definitely cost and attempting to cram more seats into a smaller plane (the 788's and 772's at first). But then they have the same # of seats in the Super Diamond variant now on the 772's as the 772's with Zodiac D seats.
[MENTION=2612]JDiver[/MENTION] has more info on this. I'm foggy on it.