Since other passengers can still see into the Studio when walking down the aisle, I didn’t feel like the space was as private as a seat toward the back of the cabin might have been. There’s also a door that slides shut, but I found that being toward the front of the plane, there’s quite a bit of foot traffic. Without a seatbelt on, you can truly roll around in that space.

And when it’s time to sleep, the seat becomes a larger lie-flat bed that measures 45 inches across at its widest point.

That means that if you and your partner or coworker are both in Mint seats, you could sit together for part of the flight and share a meal or work together on a presentation. There’s a couch-like area in the Studio space that serves as a second seat, with its own seatbelt and table for eating or working. Their biggest selling point is their size-each goes across two airplane windows, and the space can fit two people. Mint Studio is part of JetBlue’s business class Mint Suite, and comprise the two bulkhead seats at the front of the cabin. The flight was an all-too-short six hours and eight minutes, and I genuinely wouldn’t have minded if we had circled around the air a few more times. As guests boarded the inaugural flight, you could hear the genuine excitement in the crew’s voices as they welcomed us aboard, and plenty of oohs and ahhs as passengers walked past the Mint seats. I was there to check out JetBlue’s new Mint Studio seats, which are currently available on their flights from New York to London Heathrow and London Gatwick, and will eventually be rolled out on cross-country flights.

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