Delta Air Lines may reportedly abandon a new business class seat for its Airbus A321neo fleet after years of certification delays, a painful recognition that no matter how premium a seat looks on paper or even mocked up, it cannot fly if regulators will not approve it.
JonNYC suggests that Delta may abandon its planned new A321neo business class seat after persistent certification issues. That would be a major setback, because these aircraft were supposed to feature a premium product for use on transcontinental flights that Delta had spent years working on.
It has already been a strange ride. Delta reportedly took delivery of an A321neo configured with the new cabin in 2024, but the aircraft then sat in storage while certification issues dragged on. Eventually, Delta decided to install a temporary cabin with an unusually large number of domestic first class seats so the aircraft could actually enter service (44 seats!).
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