Originally Posted by
JetBlast77
You must live in a city where one of our EPs still operates. They are slowly going away, but only slowly. If its a captain that cares usually we can take a few hundred pounds less fuel and its a none issue. Any of our other 200 airplanes can take 52 and max bags everytime, but that doesn't help you if you live in those few select cities. We have 2 usuable jumpseats so 99% of the time commuters prefer us, but again, those EPs are the exception.
Good god, I hate EPs. My record weight restriction on one of those was 25 people out of EWR to IAD. (Booked to 52, of course).