Lie-flat beds coming to some American Airlines domestic flights
American Airlines says it will become the first U.S.
airline to put lie-flat seats in new planes used on transcontinental flights.
American said Monday that it will put the seats in new
Airbus A321 aircraft that it will operate between New York and California
beginning in November 2013.
The airline said each of the 10 lie-flat seats in first
class will be on the aisle, and 20 seats in business class will be two on each
side of the aisle. They will replace Boeing 767-200s on flights between New
York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Several airlines offer lie-flat beds on international
flights.
The jets are part of an order for 460 new Airbus and
Boeing planes that AMR Corp.'s American announced last July. American plans to
take 130 Airbus jets and 100 Boeing 737-800s in the next five years. It expects
to get versions still in design - 130 Airbus and 100 Boeing jets - after that.
The planes are designed to operate more cheaply by using
less fuel than current planes.
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