Originally Posted by
CPH-Flyer
The specific aircraft configuration did not exist when the wiki was written. You aircraft is the Sky Suite III with a J cabin between doors 1 and 2. Generally, I am not actually fully certain how accurate it still is, but as I never fly AA codeshare on JAL my ability to test is rather limited. JAL does tend to block window seats quite a bit. I would expect seat selection to be an option for OLCI, in the distant past when I actually did fly AA codeshare, it was. But there is no knowing how much has changed since then. Otherwise yes, at the JAL gate.
I ended up re-ticketing this (originally JFK-LAX-NRT-CGK) and got on the nonstop JFK-NRT on the 77W instead, in seat 9K. better seat / product all around. thanks again.