Unfortunately, we have an ungodly hour morning flight out of Venice on BA to London, then AA non-stop to LAX. We like the middle 2 seats in Biz class so we each have an isle. If we switch to AF at a reasonable hour we'd have a stranger in-between us since they have a 2-3-2 configuration in Biz. I knew we didn't want BA with their WEIRD backwards, forward jig saw crammed in configuration of seats.