Comment by skissane

> For really long distance flights, yes things are OK, but i'm flying over 5 hours maybe a couple times per year and never did since covid. But on "short" haul (intra EU) flights, and these are typically 3-4 hours from where i live, there is now either no premium service at all or "euro business", which is economy with middle seat blocked, best case with a transformer seat that slightly increase seat width by moving inner armrests inwards, but even that is a rarity

This seems to really be a European thing. Proper domestic business class still exists in Australia (on premium carrier flights between most major cities–even between Sydney and Melbourne, which is only about 1 hour), and I'm not aware of any plans to discontinue it. Similarly, in Japan, domestic flights have first class and business class (never been on either–but both are better seats, as opposed to just blocking off seats in economy). Business class with proper seats is available on domestic flights in China too. First/business class on shorter US domestic flights looks pretty crappy, but I believe it is much better for the longer US domestic flights (such as JFK-LAX nonstop, or Hawaiian's BOS-HNL nonstop route).