Originally Posted by
guppie
The seats aren’t coming back in the 550. Don’t be silly. And if they did, 4000 lbs doesn’t even equate to the 70 seat definition in our contract. Lol. IOW, they can put the seats back in tomorrow, and fly them as a 70 seater at a much greater weight than +4000lbs. Silly argument. rtf contract.
50 seater…. 65,000lb
70 seater…..86,000lb
I'm sure you're only addressing the gross weight aspect, but for clarification I'll add that they are already at the 70/76 seat airframe limit. They can only fly them with >50 seats if they park a E170 or 175.