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It has come to my attention that certain “lounge seats” on one type of aircraft did raise up. Continuing to check into all of this.

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I don't know why I didn't do this earlier, but I went to a frequent flyer board that I am a member of and then into their Politics and Religion section. (I never post in that section because I have FR for that)

Anyway, the seats that some folks are throwing around with movable armrests seem to be pre-1980 and limited to Braniff Airlines.

The consensus over there is these are the types of first class seats that they remember from the 1980s. I believe them because these folks are hyper-travelers. (The next two pics were lifted from a third site, Airliners.Net)

United 737

Delta 727

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National airlines, had seats that had armrests that went up on certain aircraft, but they went out of business in 1980:

The above twitter comment is referring to this seat, that is supposed to come from a TWA L1011. I can't find anything backing that up, except for a random picture on Flickr. Note there are no seatbelts and no seat recline, which is odd for a first class seat. I think this is the "lounge seat" mentioned in my earlier post.