Premium Cabin Primer
Hi there,
This is very quick. This gets more complicated when I bring more carriers into it.
This blog is just meant for me to have something to send a link to. Many people aren’t clear about what is what when it comes to airlines and where you sit.
So, Each American airline has2 different kinds of premium cabins on aircraft designed to be long hauls.
American has Flagship First for international and Flagship Business- Longhaul lay flats on long domestic flights.Premium Economy- Not a lay flat, but much better than the AA Economy Seat Upgrade, Main Cabin Extra.
United Premium Cabins for longhauls are Polaris which is their lay flat and Premium Plus. Which again, does not lay flat, but is still much nicer than their seat upgrade, Economy Plus.
Delta, has a lovely layflat called Delta One and a premium economy called Delta Select, which again, is much nicer than the DL seat upgrade, Delta Comfort.
It’s important to point out that each airline has a short range international business class, which is very similar to domestic first class.
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For Economy class, in addition to offering seat upgrades (which are not different cabins) each airline offers “preferred” seats, which are identical to regular seats in every way, except they have favorable locations, such as closer to the front.
AA Main Cabin, DL Main Cabin and UA economy are all just economy seats in the main cabin with no upgrades. When each airline talks about “Basic” economy, those refer to fare
