A#1
American Airlines — Flagship First Suites
Lie-flat, direct aisle for every seat
Consistent
Usually — ~53% of departures
Daily · Airbus A321 seat map
Best First Class: New York to Los Angeles
3 first class products fly JFK→LAX, ranked by the seat you'll actually get — not just the one on the schedule. Lie-flat is available; the badges show how reliably each flight delivers it.
A#2
Delta Air Lines — Business seats
Lie-flat, direct aisle for every seat
Consistent
On ~88% of departures
Daily · Boeing 767-400ER seat map
B#3
American Airlines — Flagship Business seats
Lie-flat, paired seating
⚠ Luck of the draw
Scheduled as a lie-flat suite with privacy door, but ~64% of departures fly a worse aircraft — the same on every flight, so you can't pick around it.
Seasonal — only flies this route from 1 Sept
Daily · Airbus A321XLR seat map
Every flight, by departure time
Each scheduled departure with the aircraft it flies — tap any to see the seat map.
How we rank
Ranked by seat hardware — what you physically get, independent of what the cabin is sold as. We lead with the seat the fleet typically flies on this route, not a single scheduled aircraft.
- ALie-flat, direct aisle for every seat
- BLie-flat, paired seating