Originally Posted by
lolwut
I miss when airplanes were airplanes and not pieces of metal with associated paperwork that could be changed on a whim to meet a contractual obligation.
Agreed... although the max takeoff, landing, and zero fuel weights changed to the upside on a number of mainline aircraft too with no mods done to the aircraft.
I was one of the people yelling about the ERJ gross weight issues... before anything could be proven they were changed. Awesome.