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Old Jul 18, 2025 | 2:55 pm
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Originally Posted by steveholt
If they have one plane operating this route with flat beds and one without, I would presume the redeye from PTY-JFK has the flat bed product and arrives in time to serve the flight back to PTY in the morning. If the 2:15 AM flight had flat beds, the plane serving that flight would also have flat beds on the way to JFK, and that wouldn't make as much sense for a daytime flight.

Basically, what it comes down to with one flat-bed equipped plane on the route is: would you rather have a redeye with flat beds from PTY-JFK or JFK-PTY? I can understand why the airline would prefer the former.
Point well taken.
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