Card said he wrote the dialogue in 1984 based on what he was hearing children say to each other when they thought no adults were around, so the book would not have shocked the South Carolina class.
RESPONSE- Legacy UA has 1 777 with the old configuration, which seems to have been a management decision not to send it to be reconfigured (older business class), there are also some 767-400s with older BusinessFirst flying from EWR-FRA-EWR-HNL with no Economy Plus, and some of the 2 class planes really have three classes as theyhave economy-plus as well.