Originally Posted by
guppie
Because it bumps our passengers and/or their bags as well as jumpseaters. Especially with the new weights. It is a great product, first class to Bentonville without checking your carryon. But since it was a 70 seater, it’s empty weight is heavier than any 50 seater. What are they gonna do with a 50 seater? Park the Guppies? Haha. Its a Joplin bird. What regionals SHOULD be flying.
Wrong again. Management created this crappy product through a loophole in our scope. There is zero reason for the pilot group to make the loophole bigger. If you’re commuting on one these that’s your problem.
4000lbs stills equals another 20 seats even with the increase in pax weights, all management needs to do is find another language loophole in the scope and magically they stick those seats back in the 550, but “we don’t think the company would do that”-the MEC
oh then guess what? The jumpseat will again be useless.