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RawHide
The issue here is United’s scope clause is different than Americans. At United a 700 is equal to a 175 so they are parking 700s to get new 175s. Now they figured out a way to reconfigure them into 50 seaters that some bean counter thinks will make a profit.
Seems like an awful lot of financial risk to put that many premium seats in a 50 seat aircraft. Lots of variability there.