Originally Posted by
terks43
There is going to still be 50 seat aircraft. Difference is they are going to be 50 seat aircraft that United can sell a first class seat on and pocket a couple thousand more dollars on each flight, the 550. In terms of operating costs there really isn’t that much of a difference between the 200 and the 550, and when you turn that metric to profit margins, espically with the first class tickets, it swings in the 550’s favor.
The galaxy brain perspective a few months ago was that the 550 was not a solid play precisely because it relied so much on filling premium seats to make it profitable. You mean to tell me that in fact it was prescient of them to create an aircraft that will withstand a cataclysmic economic downturn? That it’s the premium seats that will make it work now?