Originally Posted by Gone Flying

no amount of blocked seats will get an a321 or max 10 into EYW. (Well maybe blocking ALL of them)

we fly to several airports where we would need extra performance to get in/out reliably. We may decide to do it with blocking off half the seats on a 321, but I doubt even doing that would give it the performance of a full 319. JAC, EYW, EGE, SXM ect likely would not be able to support a max 10 or 321 even with significant seat blocks. And those are not markets a “premium airline” can just abandon because they don’t want to buy a plane that can fly there.

I agree the VAST majority of our domestic fleet will be 739, 7m10, 321 and 321NEOS in the not so distant future, and that will be for the better. Most the places we fly are long runways where extra performance just means extra cost. But we will need at least some aircraft that can perform at places that are not 8,000’ sea level runways. Will it be the a220? Or a few max 7/8s? I don’t think anyone here knows. But unless we are prepared to walk away from several markets, it will be something other than the max 10 or 321NEO.