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by ghaff 2849 days ago
It may be worth noting that, while the Concorde had smaller seats than the first class seats of that era, those first class seats were still nothing like modern lie-flat business.
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The point of lie-flat seats is to let you doze off on long trips. The point of Concorde is that even trans-Atlantic trips weren't log enough for that to matter. You don't get lie-flat seats in first or business class on many US domestic flights either, for the same reasons.
That’s starting to change though. United is reconfiguring a lot of their aircraft for Polaris seating even domestically. The seats are more comfortable though I agree it doesn’t make as big a difference on even long daytime flights.