Originally Posted by sbm12

Partly that and partly that the weather/ATC is likely to be less of an issue in July at EWR than it was in January. And if the upgrade comes through it would be for the longer flight via EWR.

The service will be much more like domestic F than like BF, as will the seats on those dates (737 instead of 752, which is operating 1730 today). It is breakfast up front and nothing in the back.