Flight: American Airlines AA 300 from New York to Los Angeles
Equipment: A321(Airbus 321 (32 B) Transcon)
Class: Business
Seat: 7 D-F (Window – Aisle Pair)
Seat Specification: True Flat Bed, Seat pitch: 75.0 “. Seat width: 19 ”
American Airlines has flat bed seats for Business and Open Suites for First Class for its coast to coast premium transcontinental flights. There are 20 flat bed seats in 2 x 2 configuration in business class.
For these long haul transcontinental flights, I was happy just to get flat beds even though in a different setting I would have preferred direct aisle access for all seats.
Beverage and meal service started soon after takeoff.
After meal service, we both laid out our seats to bed and went to sleep for about 3 hours.
Bottomline:
Seat: ****
Service: ****
Food: ****
These lie flat seats were perfect for a 5 hour cross country flight from JFK to LAX. Besides I was flying with my wife and did not mind not having aisle access.
The food was flavorful and filling. I liked my salmon and Karen liked her Quesadilla too.
Lastly the service was pretty good. I know US carriers get a bad rap from time to time but the crew on this flight was courteous and helpful.