{"id":374002,"date":"2026-02-22T21:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/american-airlines-new-premium-economy-delta-premium-select-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:00:17","slug":"how-american-airlines-new-premium-economy-seat-stacks-up-against-delta-premium-select-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=374002","title":{"rendered":"How American Airlines\u2019 New Premium Economy Seat Stacks Up Against Delta Premium Select In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2026, premium economy is ultimately where the major US network carriers are fighting as hard as possible. It is the cabin that lets airlines monetize long-haul demand without the sticker shock of flying business class, and it is increasingly the product that frequent flyers notice when they set foot on an aircraft. American&#8217;s latest move is its new <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"60363\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/boeing\/\"  >Boeing<\/a><\/span> 787-9 premium configuration, which has been built around a higher-density premium section and a redesigned Premium Economy seat with privacy-oriented headrest wings, calf and footrests, wireless charging, and modern power options. Delta Air Lines, on the other hand, has spent years refining its Premium Select product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s latest premium products are quite impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,636,1003,854,15061,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-legacy-carriers","category-premium-economy","category-premium-select","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374005,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374002\/revisions\/374005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}