Originally Posted by
trip
Burns 1K more in the first hour for the same seating configuration, it's nice but who is paying the cost difference? Sure someone will come on here and say that is not accurate but I have sat in the jump plenty times and looked at the release for a route currently flown by both types.
Oh it's accurate all right.
But does the the major partner value fuel burn or pax comfort? Fuel costs, if high by historical standards, seem to be stable for the time being and the industry business model has adapted (mostly by taking the cost difference out of labor's hide).
If a major thinks it has a grasp of a reasonably predictable cost formula it would be in a position to look at trading some fuel for pax comfort...maybe there are enough pax out there who hate RJ's and prop jobs who will vote with the wallets to have narrow-body-ish comfort on all segments.