{"id":443884,"date":"2026-06-02T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-ditching-lie-flat-a321neo-first-class\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:07:09","slug":"delta-ditching-lie-flat-a321neo-first-class-where-things-stand-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443884","title":{"rendered":"Delta Ditching Lie-Flat A321neo First Class? Where Things Stand Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta-based <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254993\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delta-air-lines\/\"  >Delta Air Lines<\/a><\/span> could be considering dropping its planned new business class seats on the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739506\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/a321neo\/\"  >Airbus A321neo<\/a><\/span>. As first suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/onemileatatime.com\/news\/delta-ditch-new-business-class-seat-certification-issues\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >One Mile At A Time<\/a>, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256203\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/skyteam\/\"  >SkyTeam<\/a><\/span> airline had been planning a new premium cabin for popular transcontinental routes, but now the airline could change those plans as the seat design was facing certification issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Delta&#8217;s first A321neo with new business class seats sits in storage, rumors swirl that the airline may abandon its preferred Safran Vue design.<\/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":[426,528,396,476,17251,3817,565,420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a321neo","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-design","category-certification","category-delta-air-lines","category-faa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443884","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=443884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443886,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443884\/revisions\/443886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}