Originally Posted by
sMFer
Think we’re gonna be continuously weight restricted? Many of the flights show sold out on our website yet Swalife shows 19 open. Hopefully once we get our feet wet, those numbers will change. It’ll be highly dependent on freight I assume.
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The quick answer is no. Remember, the -800 has been quite successfully managing the west coast to Hawaii for a few decades now. I just completed training and was told we will cap sales at 165 seats initially - which seems reasonable until we figure out what works.
Don't buy into the "we have more seats than anyone else flying the -800" nonsense. We also don't have full galleys with ovens, bulky F class seats and any number of other things that add to the empty weight of the a/c. Oh, and then there's that pesky fact of ATA having 175 coach seats on their -800's and rarely (if ever) having an issue.
It will be successful with very few limitations.