Carol,
We used to fly AA and often took advantage of their Business/First but the last two AA premium flights we took were terrible and for a three and a half hour flight it just wasn’t worth the money IMHO.
With regard to JB Mint, it used to be offered only on select flights from JFK to SXM, on weekends only I think. The one time we did book Mint I wasn’t very impressed and thought it, again, was so very over priced for such a short flight. For a three hour plus morning flight we really didn’t need a bed-like seat.
We also felt somewhat conspicuous in those pod-like seats. And then we started flying midweek so it became a total non-issue.
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