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Old Apr 13, 2025 | 6:58 pm
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Originally Posted by dkc192
Two other considerations:

1) How often and when (e.g., last minute or in advance) AM swaps aircraft. I don’t know the answer to this, but I do know that the only other aircraft capable of operating MEX-EZE, the 788, has a much inferior 2-2-2 configuration up front.
2) MEX-SFO is blocked at about an hour longer than IAH-SFO, so that’s about an hour more in a recliner than in a bed.
Not to mention that some flights between IAH-SFO are lie flat, so you could get lie flat all the way. Definitely won’t be the case with AM on SFO-MEX segment.
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