<\/a><\/p>\n I love flying the old Virgin America Airbus 319s and 320s first-class cabin. The large white leather recliner seats with 55 inches of pitch are incredibly roomy even in the 2×2 row spacing. The cabin is very private with purple tinted plexiglass barriers that separate the eight forward seats from the rest of the cabin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is a purple-velvet rope divider, red carpet style, used during flight between the coach and first cabin to restrict access. This cabin configuration was used on all Virgin America planes giving the customer a consistent experience when traveling. The lie-flat issue aside, in my opinion there wasn\u2019t a better narrow body first class cabin in the US.<\/p>\n Virgin America First Class Cabin<\/a><\/p>\n As Alaska Airlines has proceeded in their acquisition and integration of Virgin America, they had kept Virgin\u2019s Airbus crafts on the SFO-JFK routes. This is now changing, and Alaska is selectively inserting Boeing crafts on some of the SFO-JFK routes. While the SFO-JFK was a longstanding Virgin America route, it was new to Alaska Airlines at the time of the acquisition.<\/p>\n I discovered this when I was notified of a flight change by Alaska. I had purchased two first round-trip tickets, SFO-JFK-SFO, for Susan and I and when verifying the seat assignments discovered the equipment change. All the daily flights have not been changed, and I thought about changing my two flights to an earlier or later time. Ultimately, I couldn\u2019t do this as our schedule would not be flexible on this trip. I did call Alaska and asked for a refund since I felt the replaced product was not equal, to which they politely declined. Instead I refunded the flights to \u201cmy wallet\u201d in the Mileage Plan account and then repurchased the tickets in coach and upgraded with an MVP guest upgrade. Per person it reduced $1400 in ticket costs to about just over $500, which I feel is a good deal for Alaska\u2019s Boeing first class product.<\/p>\n Alaska Airbus First Class Seating\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n