Maybe it’s just me, but in this Sunday’s New York Times magazine, I saw another ad run by American Airlines touting their “experience” with the new international business class service. Hey great, we as frequent flyers welcome anything new, though often as not “improved” is best left to TV dinners and other grocery items. But what get’s me is the picture they run with this ad campaign. I doubt that it’s my eyes, but does this not look like a broken down bed? Looking left to right your vision must elevate a number of degrees and I’m not sure that even the trick with the seatbelt could hold me in there upon takeoff when the nose of the plane makes this bed about 90 degrees (maybe that’s why the FAA and airlines do not allow the seat to be extended during takeoff?). I’m pretty sure that the concept of a flat bed is not that new (5 years) for American Airlines to have missed the email from the corporate office. I’ve not tried this one and only making an assessment based on the picture, but unless it is truly lie-flat, why bother anymore?

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As for this one, it reminds me of the chute that hangs off the back end of a cement mixer, it has that much angle to it.